Barbados
[baɾˈβ̞að̞os]
The verdict
“Barbados” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #23,684. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,684
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Isla situada entre el mar Caribe y el océano Atlántico. Es una de las Antillas Menores.
Corpus desk
Index ES-barbados · Barbados · Spanish
Barbados · rank #23,684 · 13 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,684
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH balboa
Nearest frequency peer: balboa (-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 “Barbados”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- autorizacio…
autorizaciones
76,320 corpus weight
- balances
balances
76,319 corpus weight
- balboa
balboa
76,318 corpus weight
- Barbados
Barbados
76,317 corpus weight
- barrido
barrido
76,315 corpus weight
- BCE
BCE
76,314 corpus weight
What this shows “Barbados” 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 | Barbados |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [baɾˈβ̞að̞os] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Barbados”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Barbados (IPA [baɾˈβ̞að̞os]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #23,684 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Barbados, with forms such as "abrbados", "babrados", and "barabdos". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "bardos", "basados", "bárbaro", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is Barbados, spelled B-A-R-B-A-D-O-S.
Definition
- 1Isla situada entre el mar Caribe y el océano Atlántico. Es una de las Antillas Menores.
- 2País que comprende la isla anterior.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrbados
- babrados
- barabdos
- barbaddos
- barbadoss
- barbadso
- barbaods
- barbbados
- barbdaos
- barrbados
- bbarbados
- brabados
- varvados
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Barbados - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Barbados", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).