child
/t͡ʃaɪld/
The verdict
“child” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #21,932. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,932
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Niño, niña.
Corpus desk
Index ES-child · child · Spanish
child · rank #21,932 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,932
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH chapas
Nearest frequency peer: chapas (-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 “child”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- centroameri…
centroamericana
78,073 corpus weight
- chalet
chalet
78,071 corpus weight
- chapas
chapas
78,070 corpus weight
- child
child
78,069 corpus weight
- chisme
chisme
78,068 corpus weight
- clanes
clanes
78,066 corpus weight
What this shows “child” 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 | child |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /t͡ʃaɪld/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “child”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around child (IPA /t͡ʃaɪld/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,932 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 child, with forms such as "cchild", "chhild", and "chidl". 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, "cid", "chip", "chin", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is child, spelled C-H-I-L-D.
Definition
- 1Niño, niña.
- 2Hijo, hija.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchild
- chhild
- chidl
- childd
- chilld
- chlid
- cihld
- hcild
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of child - 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 "child", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).