barbilla
[baɾˈβ̞iʝa]
The verdict
“barbilla” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #23,318. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,318
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parte de la cara, situada debajo de la boca, donde comienza el cuello y en los varones adultos empieza la barba.
Corpus desk
Index ES-barbilla · barbilla · Spanish
barbilla · rank #23,318 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,318
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH baraja
Nearest frequency peer: baraja (-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 “barbilla”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- avisan
avisan
76,686 corpus weight
- bacalao
bacalao
76,685 corpus weight
- baraja
baraja
76,684 corpus weight
- barbilla
barbilla
76,683 corpus weight
- barones
barones
76,682 corpus weight
- bates
bates
76,681 corpus weight
What this shows “barbilla” 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 | barbilla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baɾˈβ̞iʝa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “barbilla”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around barbilla (IPA [baɾˈβ̞iʝa]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,318 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for barbilla, with forms such as "abrbilla", "babrilla", and "barbbilla". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "brilla", "bombilla", "bastilla", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is barbilla, spelled B-A-R-B-I-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Parte de la cara, situada debajo de la boca, donde comienza el cuello y en los varones adultos empieza la barba.
- 2El corte que se le da al extremo de un madero escaseándole a manera de punta o de ángulo muy agudo.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrbilla
- babrilla
- barbbilla
- barbila
- barbilal
- barblila
- bariblla
- barrbilla
- bbarbilla
- brabilla
- varvilla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of barbilla - 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 "barbilla", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).