colateral
[kolat̪eˈɾal]
The verdict
“colateral” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #22,986. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,986
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dícese de las cosas que están a uno y otro lado de otra principal. Aplícase comúnmente a las naves y altares de los templos, que están en esta situación.
Corpus desk
Index ES-colateral · colateral · Spanish
colateral · rank #22,986 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #22,986
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH colaboraron
Nearest frequency peer: colaboraron (-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 “colateral”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- cloacas
cloacas
77,018 corpus weight
- coaliciones
coaliciones
77,017 corpus weight
- colaboraron
colaboraron
77,016 corpus weight
- colateral
colateral
77,015 corpus weight
- cometidas
cometidas
77,013 corpus weight
- comparativo
comparativo
77,012 corpus weight
What this shows “colateral” 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 | colateral |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kolat̪eˈɾal] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “colateral”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around colateral (IPA [kolat̪eˈɾal]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,986 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for colateral, with forms such as "ccolateral", "cloateral", and "coalteral". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "colaterales", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 colateral, spelled C-O-L-A-T-E-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Dícese de las cosas que están a uno y otro lado de otra principal. Aplícase comúnmente a las naves y altares de los templos, que están en esta situación.
- 2Dícese del pariente que no es pariente por línea recta.
- 3Dicho de un daño: que ocurre como una consecuencia inintencionada respecto de otra acción.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolateral
- cloateral
- coalteral
- colaetral
- colatearl
- colaterall
- colaterla
- colaterral
- colatreal
- colatteral
- collateral
- coltaeral
- oclateral
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colateral - 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 "colateral", 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).