contratiempo
[kõn̪t̪ɾaˈt̪jẽmpo]
The verdict
“contratiempo” has 18 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #31,288. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,288
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Incidente inoportuno que obstruye el curso normal de algo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-contratiempo · contratiempo · Spanish
contratiempo · rank #31,288 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #31,288
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH contradecir
Nearest frequency peer: contradecir (-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 “contratiempo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- contaminar
contaminar
68,717 corpus weight
- contradecir
contradecir
68,714 corpus weight
- contratiempo
contratiempo
68,713 corpus weight
- convencen
convencen
68,712 corpus weight
- cornudo
cornudo
68,711 corpus weight
- cotejo
cotejo
68,710 corpus weight
What this shows “contratiempo” 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 | contratiempo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kõn̪t̪ɾaˈt̪jẽmpo] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #31,288 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “contratiempo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around contratiempo (IPA [kõn̪t̪ɾaˈt̪jẽmpo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,288 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Incidente inoportuno que obstruye el curso normal de algo.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for contratiempo, with forms such as "ccontratiempo", "cnotratiempo", and "conntratiempo". 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, "contratiempos", 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 contratiempo, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-T-I-E-M-P-O.
Definition
- 1Incidente inoportuno que obstruye el curso normal de algo.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontratiempo
- cnotratiempo
- conntratiempo
- conrtatiempo
- contartiempo
- contraitempo
- contrateimpo
- contratiemmpo
- contratiemop
- contratiemppo
- contratiepmo
- contratimepo
- contrattiempo
- contrratiempo
- contrtaiempo
- conttratiempo
- cotnratiempo
- ocntratiempo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contratiempo - 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 "contratiempo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).