compensa
[kõmˈpẽnsa]
The verdict
“compensa” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #21,608. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,608
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de compensar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-compensa · compensa · Spanish
compensa · rank #21,608 · 12 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,608
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH comimos
Nearest frequency peer: comimos (-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 “compensa”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- cocción
cocción
78,395 corpus weight
- comimos
comimos
78,394 corpus weight
- compensa
compensa
78,393 corpus weight
- complementa…
complementario
78,392 corpus weight
- complicación
complicación
78,391 corpus weight
- conocedor
conocedor
78,389 corpus weight
What this shows “compensa” 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 | compensa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kõmˈpẽnsa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “compensa”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around compensa (IPA [kõmˈpẽnsa]), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,608 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for compensa, with forms such as "ccompensa", "cmopensa", and "comepnsa". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "componía", "competía", "compensar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is compensa, spelled C-O-M-P-E-N-S-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de compensar.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de compensar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccompensa
- cmopensa
- comepnsa
- commpensa
- compenas
- compennsa
- compenssa
- compesna
- compnesa
- comppensa
- copmensa
- ocmpensa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of compensa - 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 "compensa", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).