cosmética

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cosmética is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kosˈmet̪ika]. Corpus data places it at rank #34,530 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Arte y técnica de preparar y aplicar los productos de embellecimiento y cuidado del cuerpo humano.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for cosmética, with forms such as "ccosmética", "comsética", and "cosmmética". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cósmica", "cosméticos", "cometida", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is cosmética, spelled C-O-S-M-É-T-I-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.