burdel
[buɾˈð̞el]
The verdict
“burdel” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #26,736. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,736
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Casa, inmueble o domicilio en el que se ejerce la prostitución.
Corpus desk
Index ES-burdel · burdel · Spanish
burdel · rank #26,736 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,736
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH bulevar
Nearest frequency peer: bulevar (-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 “burdel”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- bronceado
bronceado
73,268 corpus weight
- bueyes
bueyes
73,267 corpus weight
- bulevar
bulevar
73,266 corpus weight
- burdel
burdel
73,265 corpus weight
- burlando
burlando
73,263 corpus weight
- buró
buró
73,262 corpus weight
What this shows “burdel” 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 | burdel |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [buɾˈð̞el] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “burdel”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around burdel (IPA [buɾˈð̞el]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,736 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for burdel, with forms such as "bburdel", "brudel", and "budrel". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "burdo", "burger", "burlen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is burdel, spelled B-U-R-D-E-L.
Definition
- 1Casa, inmueble o domicilio en el que se ejerce la prostitución.
- 2Lugar en el que reina un gran desorden.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how burdel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Calle de Zela, tan desbordada de burdeles —y burdeles tan desbordados que en los días de pago ocupaban hasta los patios— que con razón algunos navegantes decían que Iquique era la Sodoma del Pacífico Sur.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bburdel
- brudel
- budrel
- burddel
- burdell
- burdle
- buredl
- burrdel
- ubrdel
- vurdel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of burdel - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "burdel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).