card
/kɑːd/
The verdict
“card” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #16,783. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,783
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tarjeta.
Corpus desk
Index ES-card · card · Spanish
card · rank #16,783 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,783
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH característic…
Nearest frequency peer: característicos (-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 “card”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- 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
- causante
causante
83,216 corpus weight
What this shows “card” 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 | card |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɑːd/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #16,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “card”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around card (IPA /kɑːd/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,783 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for card, with forms such as "acrd", "cadr", and "cardd". 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, "CD", "cat", "cid", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is card, spelled C-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Tarjeta.
- 2Carta de juego de naipes.
- 3Tarjeta postal.
- 4Programa (lista de eventos).
- 5Menú.
- 6Persona divertida.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrd
- cadr
- cardd
- carrd
- ccard
- crad
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of card - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "card", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).