colega
[koˈleɣ̞a]
The verdict
“colega” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #5,932. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,932
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Persona con la que se comparte el pertenecer a una profesión o equipo de trabajo u organización.
Corpus desk
Index ES-colega · colega · Spanish
colega · rank #5,932 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,932
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH chat
Nearest frequency peer: chat (-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 “colega”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- caracteres
caracteres
94,072 corpus weight
- cerdo
cerdo
94,071 corpus weight
- chat
chat
94,070 corpus weight
- colega
colega
94,069 corpus weight
- comparar
comparar
94,068 corpus weight
- condado
condado
94,067 corpus weight
What this shows “colega” 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 | colega |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koˈleɣ̞a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “colega”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around colega (IPA [koˈleɣ̞a]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,932 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for colega, with forms such as "ccolega", "cloega", and "coelga". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Corea", "colgó", "coles", 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 colega, spelled C-O-L-E-G-A.
Definition
- 1Persona con la que se comparte el pertenecer a una profesión o equipo de trabajo u organización.
- 2Amigo
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolega
- cloega
- coelga
- coleag
- colegga
- colgea
- collega
- oclega
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colega - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "colega", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).