channel
/ˈt͡ʃæn.əl/
The verdict
“channel” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #13,867. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,867
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Canal.
Corpus desk
Index ES-channel · channel · Spanish
channel · rank #13,867 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,867
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH centroamerica…
Nearest frequency peer: centroamericanos (-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 “channel”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- cel
cel
86,137 corpus weight
- celebramos
celebramos
86,136 corpus weight
- centroameri…
centroamericanos
86,135 corpus weight
- channel
channel
86,134 corpus weight
- chavistas
chavistas
86,133 corpus weight
- Claire
Claire
86,132 corpus weight
What this shows “channel” 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 | channel |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈt͡ʃæn.əl/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “channel”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around channel (IPA /ˈt͡ʃæn.əl/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,867 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for channel, with forms such as "cahnnel", "cchannel", and "chanenl". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "chapel", "chance", "change", and more, 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, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is channel, spelled C-H-A-N-N-E-L.
Definition
- 1Canal.
- 2Conducto
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahnnel
- cchannel
- chanenl
- channell
- channle
- chhannel
- chnanel
- hcannel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of channel - 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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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).