clinic
/ˈklɪn.ɪk/
The verdict
“clinic” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #42,339. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,339
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clínica.
Corpus desk
Index ES-clinic · clinic · Spanish
clinic · rank #42,339 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,339
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH clavando
Nearest frequency peer: clavando (-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 “clinic”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- chupen
chupen
57,665 corpus weight
- cibernéticos
cibernéticos
57,664 corpus weight
- clavando
clavando
57,663 corpus weight
- clinic
clinic
57,662 corpus weight
- cloroformo
cloroformo
57,661 corpus weight
- coincidentes
coincidentes
57,658 corpus weight
What this shows “clinic” 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 | clinic |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈklɪn.ɪk/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #42,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “clinic”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around clinic (IPA /ˈklɪn.ɪk/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,339 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Clínica.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for clinic, with forms such as "cclinic", "cilnic", and "cliinc". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "clínica", "clínico", "clínicas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 clinic, spelled C-L-I-N-I-C.
Definition
- 1Clínica.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclinic
- cilnic
- cliinc
- clinci
- clinicc
- clinnic
- cllinic
- clniic
- lcinic
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clinic - 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 "clinic", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).