cóctel
[ˈkokt̪el]
The verdict
“cóctel” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #20,637. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,637
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bebida que resulta de mezclar licores varios junto con bebidas refrescantes, y a veces también con algún fruto.
Corpus desk
Index ES-coctel · cóctel · Spanish
cóctel · rank #20,637 · 9 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,637
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cómodamente
Nearest frequency peer: cómodamente (+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 “cóctel”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- cuelgan
cuelgan
79,367 corpus weight
- cum
cum
79,366 corpus weight
- cóctel
cóctel
79,364 corpus weight
- cómodamente
cómodamente
79,363 corpus weight
- dais
dais
79,362 corpus weight
- dañados
dañados
79,361 corpus weight
What this shows “cóctel” 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 | cóctel |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkokt̪el] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “cóctel”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cóctel (IPA [ˈkokt̪el]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,637 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cóctel, with forms such as "ccóctel", "ccótel", and "cócctel". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "corte", "Conte", "comte", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 cóctel, spelled C-Ó-C-T-E-L.
Definition
- 1Bebida que resulta de mezclar licores varios junto con bebidas refrescantes, y a veces también con algún fruto.
- 2Mezcla de otras cosas.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccóctel
- ccótel
- cócctel
- cócetl
- cóctell
- cóctle
- cócttel
- cótcel
- ócctel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cóctel - 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 "cóctel", 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).