canicas
[kaˈnikas]
The verdict
“canicas” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #44,606. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,606
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de canica.
Corpus desk
Index ES-canicas · canicas · Spanish
canicas · rank #44,606 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,606
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH canis
Nearest frequency peer: canis (+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 “canicas”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- callando
callando
55,399 corpus weight
- canicas
canicas
55,395 corpus weight
- canis
canis
55,394 corpus weight
- cannon
cannon
55,393 corpus weight
- caníbales
caníbales
55,392 corpus weight
- captados
captados
55,391 corpus weight
What this shows “canicas” 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 | canicas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈnikas] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “canicas”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around canicas (IPA [kaˈnikas]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,606 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del plural de canica.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for canicas, with forms such as "acnicas", "caincas", and "cancias". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "canis", "chicas", "cínica", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is canicas, spelled C-A-N-I-C-A-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de canica.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acnicas
- caincas
- cancias
- caniacs
- canicass
- caniccas
- canicsa
- cannicas
- ccanicas
- cnaicas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of canicas - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "canicas", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).