ciego
[ˈsjeɣ̞o]
The verdict
“ciego” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #4,687. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,687
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que no ve por defecto en los ojos o en el encéfalo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ciego · ciego · Spanish
ciego · rank #4,687 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,687
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH Chris
Nearest frequency peer: Chris (-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 “ciego”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- bus
bus
95,318 corpus weight
- capítulos
capítulos
95,317 corpus weight
- Chris
Chris
95,315 corpus weight
- ciego
ciego
95,314 corpus weight
- comisiones
comisiones
95,313 corpus weight
- conciertos
conciertos
95,312 corpus weight
What this shows “ciego” 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 | ciego |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈsjeɣ̞o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “ciego”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around ciego (IPA [ˈsjeɣ̞o]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,687 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for ciego, with forms such as "cciego", "ceigo", and "cieggo". 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, "cio", "creo", "cien", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is ciego, spelled C-I-E-G-O.
Definition
- 1Que no ve por defecto en los ojos o en el encéfalo.
- 2Poseído por una pasión vehemente que nubla la razón.
- 3Incapaz de percibir o comprender un hecho patente, una cosa evidente.
- 4Comportamiento o sentimiento muy fuerte o fanático, que no ofrece vacilaciones.
- 5Se dice de la vía, conducto, espacio, hueco que está tapiado, cerrado u obstruido.
- 6Se dice de la pared o muro que no tiene ventanas, ni puertas, ni otras aberturas.
- 7Que ha consumido en exceso comida, alcohol o drogas.
- 8Se dice de algunos alimentos que habitualmente presentan agujeros, cuando no los tienen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ciego appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ciego de amor.
Ciego de ira.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cciego
- ceigo
- cieggo
- cieog
- cigeo
- icego
- siego
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ciego - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "ciego", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).