cordel
[koɾˈð̞el]
The verdict
“cordel” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #42,915. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,915
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cuerda de escaso grosor.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cordel · cordel · Spanish
cordel · rank #42,915 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,915
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH correría
Nearest frequency peer: correría (+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 “cordel”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- conversado
conversado
57,089 corpus weight
- cooperativos
cooperativos
57,088 corpus weight
- cordel
cordel
57,086 corpus weight
- correría
correría
57,085 corpus weight
- corrobora
corrobora
57,084 corpus weight
- cotizado
cotizado
57,082 corpus weight
What this shows “cordel” 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 | cordel |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koɾˈð̞el] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #42,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “cordel”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cordel (IPA [koɾˈð̞el]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,915 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cordel, with forms such as "ccordel", "codrel", and "corddel". 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, "corte", "Corea", "corre", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 cordel, spelled C-O-R-D-E-L.
Definition
- 1Cuerda de escaso grosor.
- 2Medida de longitud equivalente a cinco pasos.
- 3Medida agraria de superficie utilizar|utilizada en Cuba.
- 4Medida agraria de longitud utilizada en Cuba.
- 5Pasada o camino para el ganado trashumante que antiguamente tenía 45 varas de ancho.
- 6Cuerda para hacer girar el trompo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccordel
- codrel
- corddel
- cordell
- cordle
- coredl
- corrdel
- crodel
- ocrdel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cordel - 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 "cordel", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).