borrego
[boˈreɣ̞o]
The verdict
“borrego” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #29,077. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,077
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cría de oveja de entre 1 y 2 años de edad.
Corpus desk
Index ES-borrego · borrego · Spanish
borrego · rank #29,077 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,077
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH bombón
Nearest frequency peer: bombón (-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 “borrego”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- bizcochos
bizcochos
70,928 corpus weight
- bobina
bobina
70,926 corpus weight
- bombón
bombón
70,925 corpus weight
- borrego
borrego
70,924 corpus weight
- buck
buck
70,921 corpus weight
- bugs
bugs
70,920 corpus weight
What this shows “borrego” 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 | borrego |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [boˈreɣ̞o] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “borrego”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around borrego (IPA [boˈreɣ̞o]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,077 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for borrego, with forms such as "bborrego", "borego", and "borergo". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "borro", "borroso", "Borrell", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is borrego, spelled B-O-R-R-E-G-O.
Definition
- 1Cría de oveja de entre 1 y 2 años de edad.
- 2Pieza de ropa confeccionada de la piel del borrego₁, apreciada como abrigo.
- 3Nube cuya forma recuerda el cuerpo lanudo de un borrego₁.
- 4Persona que obedece ciegamente la voluntad de otros.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bborrego
- borego
- borergo
- borreggo
- borreog
- borrgeo
- brorego
- obrrego
- vorrego
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of borrego - 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
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).