contagio
[kõn̪ˈt̪axjo]
The verdict
“contagio” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #16,060. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,060
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción o efecto de contagiar (transmitir un agente patógeno).
Corpus desk
Index ES-contagio · contagio · Spanish
contagio · rank #16,060 · 11 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,060
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH contaminantes
Nearest frequency peer: contaminantes (+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 “contagio”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- consignas
consignas
83,945 corpus weight
- constructor…
constructores
83,943 corpus weight
- contagio
contagio
83,941 corpus weight
- contaminant…
contaminantes
83,940 corpus weight
- convertida
convertida
83,939 corpus weight
- cordura
cordura
83,938 corpus weight
What this shows “contagio” 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 | contagio |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kõn̪ˈt̪axjo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,060 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “contagio”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around contagio (IPA [kõn̪ˈt̪axjo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,060 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for contagio, with forms such as "ccontagio", "cnotagio", and "conatgio". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "contigo", "contando", "contaría", and more, 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 contagio, spelled C-O-N-T-A-G-I-O.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de contagiar (transmitir un agente patógeno).
- 2Por extensión, transmisión involuntaria de hábitos, actitudes o emociones de una persona a otra, por imitación o influencia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contagio appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
un contagio de estilo, el contagio de un vicio.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontagio
- cnotagio
- conatgio
- conntagio
- contaggio
- contagoi
- contaigo
- contgaio
- conttagio
- cotnagio
- ocntagio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contagio - 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 "contagio", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).