buscaste
[busˈkast̪e]
The verdict
“buscaste” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #38,541. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,541
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Segunda persona del singular (tú, vos) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de buscar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-buscaste · buscaste · Spanish
buscaste · rank #38,541 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,541
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH burlaban
Nearest frequency peer: burlaban (-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 “buscaste”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- buenísimas
buenísimas
61,463 corpus weight
- burlaban
burlaban
61,461 corpus weight
- buscaste
buscaste
61,460 corpus weight
- button
button
61,459 corpus weight
- calambres
calambres
61,458 corpus weight
- calurosos
calurosos
61,457 corpus weight
What this shows “buscaste” 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 | buscaste |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [busˈkast̪e] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “buscaste”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around buscaste (IPA [busˈkast̪e]), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,541 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Segunda persona del singular (tú, vos) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de buscar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for buscaste, with forms such as "bbuscaste", "bsucaste", and "bucsaste". 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, "búscame", "buscarme", "buscarse", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is buscaste, spelled B-U-S-C-A-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Segunda persona del singular (tú, vos) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de buscar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbuscaste
- bsucaste
- bucsaste
- busacste
- buscaset
- buscasste
- buscastte
- buscatse
- busccaste
- buscsate
- busscaste
- ubscaste
- vuscaste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of buscaste - 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
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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).