clay
/kleɪ/
The verdict
“clay” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #21,254. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,254
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arcilla.
Corpus desk
Index ES-clay · clay · Spanish
clay · rank #21,254 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,254
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH circunscripci…
Nearest frequency peer: circunscripciones (-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 “clay”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- cerré
cerré
78,750 corpus weight
- Choi
Choi
78,749 corpus weight
- circunscrip…
circunscripciones
78,748 corpus weight
- clay
clay
78,747 corpus weight
- cliché
cliché
78,746 corpus weight
- cojer
cojer
78,745 corpus weight
What this shows “clay” 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 | clay |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kleɪ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #21,254 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “clay”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around clay (IPA /kleɪ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,254 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Arcilla.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for clay, with forms such as "caly", "cclay", and "clayy". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cry", "CTA", "cua", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is clay, spelled C-L-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Arcilla.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- caly
- cclay
- clayy
- cllay
- clya
- lcay
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clay - 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 "clay", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).