coronavirus
[koɾonaˈβ̞iɾus]
The verdict
“coronavirus” has 17 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #24,811. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,811
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Coronaviridae) Miembro de una familia de virus que infectan a animales y seres humanos, y cuyo genoma consiste en una sola cadena de ARN.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coronavirus |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koɾonaˈβ̞iɾus] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #24,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coronavirus” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around coronavirus (IPA [koɾonaˈβ̞iɾus]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,811 among 77,812 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(Coronaviridae) Miembro de una familia de virus que infectan a animales y seres humanos, y cuyo genoma consiste en una sola cadena de ARN.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for coronavirus, with forms such as "ccoronavirus", "coornavirus", and "cornoavirus". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is coronavirus, spelled C-O-R-O-N-A-V-I-R-U-S.
Definition
- 1(Coronaviridae) Miembro de una familia de virus que infectan a animales y seres humanos, y cuyo genoma consiste en una sola cadena de ARN.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoronavirus
- coornavirus
- cornoavirus
- coroanvirus
- coronabirus
- coronaivrus
- coronavirrus
- coronavirsu
- coronaviruss
- coronaviurs
- coronavrius
- coronavvirus
- coronnavirus
- coronvairus
- corronavirus
- croonavirus
- ocronavirus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coronavirus - 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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Using “coronavirus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-O-R-O-N-A-V-I-R-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [koɾonaˈβ̞iɾus] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.