característicos
[kaɾakt̪eˈɾist̪ikos]
The verdict
“característicos” has 23 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #16,782. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,782
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 23
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del masculino plural de característico.
Corpus desk
Index ES-caracteristicos · característicos · Spanish
característicos · rank #16,782 · 23 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,782
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 23 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH caprichos
Nearest frequency peer: caprichos (-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 “característicos”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- cancela
cancela
83,222 corpus weight
- capacitado
capacitado
83,221 corpus weight
- caprichos
caprichos
83,220 corpus weight
- característ…
característicos
83,219 corpus weight
- card
card
83,218 corpus weight
- castigados
castigados
83,217 corpus weight
What this shows “característicos” 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 | característicos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kaɾakt̪eˈɾist̪ikos] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #16,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 23 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “característicos”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 23 spelling variants around característicos (IPA [kaɾakt̪eˈɾist̪ikos]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,782 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del masculino plural de característico.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 23 likely wrong-spelling variants for característicos, with forms such as "acracterísticos", "caarcterísticos", and "caraccterísticos". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "característica", "característico", "características", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is característicos, spelled C-A-R-A-C-T-E-R-Í-S-T-I-C-O-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del masculino plural de característico.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acracterísticos
- caarcterísticos
- caraccterísticos
- caracetrísticos
- caracterrísticos
- caractersíticos
- caracterísitcos
- caracteríssticos
- característcios
- característiccos
- característicoss
- característicso
- característiocs
- característticos
- caracterítsicos
- caracteírsticos
- caractreísticos
- caractterísticos
- caratcerísticos
- carcaterísticos
- carracterísticos
- ccaracterísticos
- craacterísticos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of característicos - 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 "característicos", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (23 here; floor ≥5).