cordillera
[koɾð̞iˈʝeɾa]
The verdict
“cordillera” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #8,637. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,637
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sucesión de montañas enlazadas entre sí que se forma cuando una capa de la corteza terrestre se desliza por debajo del borde de otra.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cordillera · cordillera · Spanish
cordillera · rank #8,637 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #8,637
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH consume
Nearest frequency peer: consume (-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 “cordillera”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- concursos
concursos
91,367 corpus weight
- consideradas
consideradas
91,366 corpus weight
- consume
consume
91,365 corpus weight
- cordillera
cordillera
91,364 corpus weight
- cristales
cristales
91,363 corpus weight
- dejarse
dejarse
91,362 corpus weight
What this shows “cordillera” 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 | cordillera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koɾð̞iˈʝeɾa] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #8,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “cordillera”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around cordillera (IPA [koɾð̞iˈʝeɾa]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,637 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sucesión de montañas enlazadas entre sí que se forma cuando una capa de la corteza terrestre se desliza por debajo del borde de otra.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for cordillera, with forms such as "ccordillera", "codrillera", and "corddillera". 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, "cordilleras", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is cordillera, spelled C-O-R-D-I-L-L-E-R-A.
Definition
- 1Sucesión de montañas enlazadas entre sí que se forma cuando una capa de la corteza terrestre se desliza por debajo del borde de otra.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccordillera
- codrillera
- corddillera
- cordilelra
- cordilera
- cordillear
- cordillerra
- cordillrea
- cordlilera
- coridllera
- corrdillera
- crodillera
- ocrdillera
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cordillera - 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 "cordillera", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).