civil
[siˈβ̞il]
The verdict
“civil” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #669. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #669
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Propio o relacionado con los ciudadanos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-civil · civil · Spanish
civil · rank #669 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #669
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cambiar
Nearest frequency peer: cambiar (-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 “civil”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- resultado
resultado
99,335 corpus weight
- alta
alta
99,334 corpus weight
- cambiar
cambiar
99,333 corpus weight
- civil
civil
99,332 corpus weight
- Colombia
Colombia
99,331 corpus weight
- hermano
hermano
99,330 corpus weight
What this shows “civil” 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 | civil |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [siˈβ̞il] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “civil”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around civil (IPA [siˈβ̞il]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #669 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for civil, with forms such as "ccivil", "cibil", and "ciivl". 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, "COVID", "civiles", "cirio", 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 civil, spelled C-I-V-I-L.
Definition
- 1Propio o relacionado con los ciudadanos.
- 2Que es ajeno a lo militar, o a la policía.
- 3Que es ajeno a lo militar o a lo religioso.
- 4Se dice de una persona que no es militar, ni policía, ni miembro de una organización criminal.
- 5Propio o relacionado con el derecho privado o los asuntos de interés privado, en oposición al derecho penal, público o administrativo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how civil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mueren policía, sicario y 4 civiles en balacera en costera de Acapulco.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccivil
- cibil
- ciivl
- civill
- civli
- civvil
- cviil
- icvil
- sivil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of civil - 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 "civil", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).