chiquito
[t͡ʃiˈkit̪o]
The verdict
“chiquito” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #11,734. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,734
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Diminutivo del adjetivo chico. Muy pequeño.
Corpus desk
Index ES-chiquito · chiquito · Spanish
chiquito · rank #11,734 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,734
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH Charlotte
Nearest frequency peer: Charlotte (-2 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 “chiquito”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- capo
capo
88,271 corpus weight
- caracterizan
caracterizan
88,270 corpus weight
- Charlotte
Charlotte
88,269 corpus weight
- chiquito
chiquito
88,267 corpus weight
- cohete
cohete
88,265 corpus weight
- comemos
comemos
88,264 corpus weight
What this shows “chiquito” 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 | chiquito |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [t͡ʃiˈkit̪o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,734 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “chiquito”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around chiquito (IPA [t͡ʃiˈkit̪o]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,734 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for chiquito, with forms such as "cchiquito", "chhiquito", and "chiqiuto". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "chiquitos", "chiquita", "chiquillo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is chiquito, spelled C-H-I-Q-U-I-T-O.
Definition
- 1Diminutivo del adjetivo chico. Muy pequeño.
- 2Se dice de una persona tiene pocos años de edad.
- 3Pequeño, de tamaño reducido.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chiquito appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Luego cuando ya el chiquito tenía cinco meses, yo fui a llamar por teléfono a ese señor
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchiquito
- chhiquito
- chiqiuto
- chiqquito
- chiquiot
- chiquitto
- chiqutio
- chiuqito
- chqiuito
- cihquito
- hciquito
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chiquito - 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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chiquito", 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).