ciudadano
[sjuð̞aˈð̞ano]
The verdict
“ciudadano” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #1,839. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,839
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que pertenece o concierne a la ciudad, especialmente referido a sus habitantes.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ciudadano · ciudadano · Spanish
ciudadano · rank #1,839 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,839
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH Bolivia
Nearest frequency peer: Bolivia (-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 “ciudadano”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- animal
animal
98,165 corpus weight
- aparte
aparte
98,164 corpus weight
- Bolivia
Bolivia
98,163 corpus weight
- ciudadano
ciudadano
98,162 corpus weight
- colaboración
colaboración
98,161 corpus weight
- compromiso
compromiso
98,160 corpus weight
What this shows “ciudadano” 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 | ciudadano |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [sjuð̞aˈð̞ano] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “ciudadano”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around ciudadano (IPA [sjuð̞aˈð̞ano]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,839 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Que pertenece o concierne a la ciudad, especialmente referido a sus habitantes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for ciudadano, with forms such as "cciudadano", "ciduadano", and "ciuaddano". 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, "ciudadanos", "ciudadana", "ciudadanía", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is ciudadano, spelled C-I-U-D-A-D-A-N-O.
Definition
- 1Que pertenece o concierne a la ciudad, especialmente referido a sus habitantes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cciudadano
- ciduadano
- ciuaddano
- ciudaadno
- ciudadanno
- ciudadaon
- ciudaddano
- ciudadnao
- ciuddaano
- ciuddadano
- cuidadano
- icudadano
- siudadano
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ciudadano - 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 "ciudadano", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).