cebada
[seˈβ̞að̞a]
The verdict
“cebada” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #18,763. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,763
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Hordeum vulgare) Planta anual, herbácea, de la familia de las gramíneas, extensamente cultivada para la alimentación del hombre y los animales. Es más rústico que otros cereales, aún que el centen...
Corpus desk
Index ES-cebada · cebada · Spanish
cebada · rank #18,763 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,763
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH Chaves
Nearest frequency peer: Chaves (+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 “cebada”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- cambiaste
cambiaste
81,241 corpus weight
- Catamarca
Catamarca
81,240 corpus weight
- cebada
cebada
81,238 corpus weight
- Chaves
Chaves
81,237 corpus weight
- chorizo
chorizo
81,236 corpus weight
- citación
citación
81,235 corpus weight
What this shows “cebada” 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 | cebada |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [seˈβ̞að̞a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “cebada”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around cebada (IPA [seˈβ̞að̞a]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,763 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(Hordeum vulgare) Planta anual, herbácea, de la familia de las gramíneas, extensamente cultivada para la alimentación del hombre y los animales. Es más rústico que otros cereales, aún que el centen...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cebada, with forms such as "cbeada", "ccebada", and "ceabda". 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, "ceda", "celda", "cerda", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is cebada, spelled C-E-B-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1(Hordeum vulgare) Planta anual, herbácea, de la familia de las gramíneas, extensamente cultivada para la alimentación del hombre y los animales. Es más rústico que otros cereales, aún que el centeno; tiene el tallo cilíndrico, de hasta 2m de altura, con hojas lineales, e inflorescencias en espigas formadas por espiguillas uniformes y grano aguzado en los extremos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cbeada
- ccebada
- ceabda
- cebaad
- cebadda
- cebbada
- cebdaa
- cevada
- ecbada
- sebada
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cebada - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).