Cortázar
[koɾˈt̪asaɾ]
The verdict
“Cortázar” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #19,970. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,970
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apellido
Corpus desk
Index ES-cortazar · Cortázar · Spanish
Cortázar · rank #19,970 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,970
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH coordinada
Nearest frequency peer: coordinada (-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 “Cortázar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- contestan
contestan
80,034 corpus weight
- contrajo
contrajo
80,033 corpus weight
- coordinada
coordinada
80,032 corpus weight
- Cortázar
Cortázar
80,031 corpus weight
- cosméticos
cosméticos
80,030 corpus weight
- credo
credo
80,029 corpus weight
What this shows “Cortázar” 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 | Cortázar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [koɾˈt̪asaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Cortázar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Cortázar (IPA [koɾˈt̪asaɾ]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,970 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Apellido".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cortázar, with forms such as "ccortázar", "corrtázar", and "corttázar". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "corteza", "cotizar", "cortar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is Cortázar, spelled C-O-R-T-Á-Z-A-R.
Definition
- 1Apellido
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccortázar
- corrtázar
- corttázar
- cortzáar
- cortáazr
- cortázarr
- cortázra
- cortázzar
- corátzar
- cotrázar
- crotázar
- ocrtázar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cortázar - 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 "Cortázar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).