Cairo
[ˈkajɾo]
The verdict
“Cairo” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #11,917. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,917
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - es la capital de Egipto.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cairo · Cairo · Spanish
Cairo · rank #11,917 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,917
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH calzada
Nearest frequency peer: calzada (+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 “Cairo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- bosnia
bosnia
88,087 corpus weight
- botín
botín
88,086 corpus weight
- Cairo
Cairo
88,084 corpus weight
- calzada
calzada
88,083 corpus weight
- Cambridge
Cambridge
88,082 corpus weight
- celebraron
celebraron
88,081 corpus weight
What this shows “Cairo” 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 | Cairo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈkajɾo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Cairo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Cairo (IPA [ˈkajɾo]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #11,917 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "es la capital de Egipto.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cairo, with forms such as "aciro", "caior", and "cairro". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "car", "cio", "caso", 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 Cairo, spelled C-A-I-R-O.
Definition
- 1es la capital de Egipto.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aciro
- caior
- cairro
- cario
- ccairo
- ciaro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cairo - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).