arrecife
[areˈsife]
The verdict
“arrecife” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #22,576. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,576
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Barrera de rocas situada en el mar y en zonas de mareas, que durante la marea alta permanece sumergido y durante la marea baja aparece parcialmente emergida. Puede ser de cualquier tipo de roca de ...
Corpus desk
Index ES-arrecife · arrecife · Spanish
arrecife · rank #22,576 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #22,576
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH Apure
Nearest frequency peer: Apure (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “arrecife”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- aprenderás
aprenderás
77,428 corpus weight
- aprovechen
aprovechen
77,427 corpus weight
- Apure
Apure
77,426 corpus weight
- arrecife
arrecife
77,425 corpus weight
- artesano
artesano
77,424 corpus weight
- asaltaron
asaltaron
77,423 corpus weight
What this shows “arrecife” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arrecife |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [areˈsife] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “arrecife”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around arrecife (IPA [areˈsife]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,576 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Barrera de rocas situada en el mar y en zonas de mareas, que durante la marea alta permanece sumergido y durante la marea baja aparece parcialmente emergida. Puede ser de cualquier tipo de roca de ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for arrecife, with forms such as "arecife", "arercife", and "arrceife". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Arrecifes", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is arrecife, spelled A-R-R-E-C-I-F-E.
Definition
- 1Barrera de rocas situada en el mar y en zonas de mareas, que durante la marea alta permanece sumergido y durante la marea baja aparece parcialmente emergida. Puede ser de cualquier tipo de roca de origen geológico o biológico.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arecife
- arercife
- arrceife
- arreccife
- arrecfie
- arrecief
- arreciffe
- arreicfe
- arresife
- rarecife
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arrecife - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).