controvertido
[kõn̪t̪ɾoβ̞eɾˈt̪ið̞o]
The verdict
“controvertido” has 21 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #21,278. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,278
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 21
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dicho de un asunto: que siempre es motivo de debate y que da lugar a posturas contrapuestas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-controvertido · controvertido · Spanish
controvertido · rank #21,278 · 21 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,278
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 21 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH convertía
Nearest frequency peer: convertía (+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 “controvertido”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- construimos
construimos
78,726 corpus weight
- contables
contables
78,725 corpus weight
- controverti…
controvertido
78,723 corpus weight
- convertía
convertía
78,722 corpus weight
- coordinador…
coordinadores
78,721 corpus weight
- cosplay
cosplay
78,720 corpus weight
What this shows “controvertido” 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 | controvertido |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kõn̪t̪ɾoβ̞eɾˈt̪ið̞o] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #21,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “controvertido”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 21 spelling variants around controvertido (IPA [kõn̪t̪ɾoβ̞eɾˈt̪ið̞o]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,278 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dicho de un asunto: que siempre es motivo de debate y que da lugar a posturas contrapuestas.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for controvertido, with forms such as "ccontrovertido", "cnotrovertido", and "conntrovertido". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "controvertidos", "controvertida", "controvertidas", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is controvertido, spelled C-O-N-T-R-O-V-E-R-T-I-D-O.
Definition
- 1Dicho de un asunto: que siempre es motivo de debate y que da lugar a posturas contrapuestas.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontrovertido
- cnotrovertido
- conntrovertido
- conrtovertido
- contorvertido
- controbertido
- controevrtido
- controveritdo
- controverrtido
- controvertdio
- controvertiddo
- controvertiod
- controverttido
- controvetrido
- controvretido
- controvvertido
- contrrovertido
- contrvoertido
- conttrovertido
- cotnrovertido
- ocntrovertido
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of controvertido - 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 "controvertido", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (21 here; floor ≥5).