barranco
[baˈrãŋko]
The verdict
“barranco” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #14,300. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,300
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Despeñadero o precipicio.
Corpus desk
Index ES-barranco · barranco · Spanish
barranco · rank #14,300 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,300
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH bandidos
Nearest frequency peer: bandidos (-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 “barranco”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- bah
bah
85,703 corpus weight
- bandidos
bandidos
85,702 corpus weight
- barranco
barranco
85,701 corpus weight
- bc
bc
85,700 corpus weight
- boluda
boluda
85,699 corpus weight
- Borra
Borra
85,698 corpus weight
What this shows “barranco” 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 | barranco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baˈrãŋko] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “barranco”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around barranco (IPA [baˈrãŋko]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,300 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for barranco, with forms such as "abrranco", "baranco", and "bararnco". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "branco", "barroco", "borrando", 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 is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is barranco, spelled B-A-R-R-A-N-C-O.
Definition
- 1Despeñadero o precipicio.
- 2Quiebra profunda producida en la tierra por la erosión causada por las corrientes de las aguas.
- 3Dificultad o embarazo en lo que se intenta o ejecuta.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrranco
- baranco
- bararnco
- barracno
- barrancco
- barrannco
- barranoc
- barrnaco
- bbarranco
- braranco
- varranco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of barranco - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "barranco", 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).