cosquillas
[kosˈkiʝas]
The verdict
“cosquillas” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #19,678. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,678
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sensación placentera —si es breve—, percibida en algunas áreas del cuerpo mediante tocamientos ligeros. Paradójicamente, consiste en una conmoción desagradable que suele provocar risa involuntaria....
Corpus desk
Index ES-cosquillas · cosquillas · Spanish
cosquillas · rank #19,678 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,678
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cortejo
Nearest frequency peer: cortejo (-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 “cosquillas”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- consultivo
consultivo
80,326 corpus weight
- contundentes
contundentes
80,325 corpus weight
- cortejo
cortejo
80,324 corpus weight
- cosquillas
cosquillas
80,323 corpus weight
- costura
costura
80,322 corpus weight
- criollos
criollos
80,321 corpus weight
What this shows “cosquillas” 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 | cosquillas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kosˈkiʝas] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #19,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “cosquillas”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around cosquillas (IPA [kosˈkiʝas]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,678 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for cosquillas, with forms such as "ccosquillas", "coqsuillas", and "cosqiullas". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "costillas", "cosquilleo", "casquillos", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is cosquillas, spelled C-O-S-Q-U-I-L-L-A-S.
Definition
- 1Sensación placentera —si es breve—, percibida en algunas áreas del cuerpo mediante tocamientos ligeros. Paradójicamente, consiste en una conmoción desagradable que suele provocar risa involuntaria. Aplicada en exceso se convierte en tortura.
- 2Desavenencia, inquietud, rencilla.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cosquillas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Las cosquillas no son un comportamiento exclusivo del hombre, sino que se presentan en diversos animales y son bastante comunes en los mamíferos. Estas producen risa y pueden ser tremendamente placenteras así como convertirse en una terrible tortura.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccosquillas
- coqsuillas
- cosqiullas
- cosqquillas
- cosquilals
- cosquilas
- cosquillass
- cosquillsa
- cosqulilas
- cossquillas
- cosuqillas
- csoquillas
- ocsquillas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cosquillas - 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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