centeno
[sẽn̪ˈt̪eno]
The verdict
“centeno” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #21,250. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,250
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Secale cereale) Planta herbácea de la familia de las poáceas, estrechamente emparentada con el trigo y la cebada, pero más rústica que éstas. Se cultiva desde la Edad de Bronce por su grano y como...
Corpus desk
Index ES-centeno · centeno · Spanish
centeno · rank #21,250 · 11 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,250
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH Ceballos
Nearest frequency peer: Ceballos (-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 “centeno”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- casaron
casaron
78,754 corpus weight
- Cayetano
Cayetano
78,753 corpus weight
- Ceballos
Ceballos
78,752 corpus weight
- centeno
centeno
78,751 corpus weight
- cerré
cerré
78,750 corpus weight
- Choi
Choi
78,749 corpus weight
What this shows “centeno” 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 | centeno |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sẽn̪ˈt̪eno] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “centeno”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around centeno (IPA [sẽn̪ˈt̪eno]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,250 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(Secale cereale) Planta herbácea de la familia de las poáceas, estrechamente emparentada con el trigo y la cebada, pero más rústica que éstas. Se cultiva desde la Edad de Bronce por su grano y como...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for centeno, with forms such as "ccenteno", "cenetno", and "cennteno". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "centro", "center", "conteo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is centeno, spelled C-E-N-T-E-N-O.
Definition
- 1(Secale cereale) Planta herbácea de la familia de las poáceas, estrechamente emparentada con el trigo y la cebada, pero más rústica que éstas. Se cultiva desde la Edad de Bronce por su grano y como forraje. Tiene el tallo más largo y flexible que el del trigo, acabado en una inflorescencia en espiga, con espigüelas de tres flores. El fruto es una cariópside alargada, de color oscuro.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccenteno
- cenetno
- cennteno
- centenno
- centeon
- centneo
- centteno
- cetneno
- cneteno
- ecnteno
- senteno
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of centeno - 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 "centeno", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).