cartoon
/kɑːˈtuːn/
The verdict
“cartoon” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #35,930. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,930
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caricatura.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cartoon · cartoon · Spanish
cartoon · rank #35,930 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,930
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cari
Nearest frequency peer: cari (-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 “cartoon”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- capuchinos
capuchinos
64,074 corpus weight
- caracteriza…
caracterizados
64,073 corpus weight
- cari
cari
64,072 corpus weight
- cartoon
cartoon
64,071 corpus weight
- cartílago
cartílago
64,070 corpus weight
- cassette
cassette
64,069 corpus weight
What this shows “cartoon” 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 | cartoon |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɑːˈtuːn/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “cartoon”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around cartoon (IPA /kɑːˈtuːn/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,930 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cartoon, with forms such as "acrtoon", "caroton", and "carrtoon". 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, "carbón", "cartón", "Cantón", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 cartoon, spelled C-A-R-T-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1Caricatura.
- 2Tira cómica.
- 3Historieta.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrtoon
- caroton
- carrtoon
- carton
- cartono
- cartoonn
- carttoon
- catroon
- ccartoon
- cratoon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cartoon - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).