chequear
[t͡ʃekeˈaɾ]
The verdict
“chequear” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #26,352. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,352
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Revisar o examinar una cosa para comprobar su estado.
Corpus desk
Index ES-chequear · chequear · Spanish
chequear · rank #26,352 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,352
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH champaña
Nearest frequency peer: champaña (-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 “chequear”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- carretas
carretas
73,653 corpus weight
- casona
casona
73,652 corpus weight
- cavernas
cavernas
73,651 corpus weight
- champaña
champaña
73,650 corpus weight
- chequear
chequear
73,649 corpus weight
- cinematográ…
cinematográficas
73,646 corpus weight
What this shows “chequear” 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 | chequear |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [t͡ʃekeˈaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #26,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “chequear”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around chequear (IPA [t͡ʃekeˈaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #26,352 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for chequear, with forms such as "cchequear", "cehquear", and "cheqeuar". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "cheques", "chequeo", "chequeos", 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 chequear, spelled C-H-E-Q-U-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1Revisar o examinar una cosa para comprobar su estado.
- 2Hacer un reconocimiento médico completo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chequear appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
el técnico ha chequeado la máquina empaquetadora
chequear la salud de una mascota
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchequear
- cehquear
- cheqeuar
- cheqquear
- chequaer
- chequearr
- chequera
- cheuqear
- chhequear
- chqeuear
- hcequear
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chequear - 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 "chequear", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).