cost
[ˈkɔst]
The verdict
“cost” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #21,956. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,956
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Costo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cost · cost · Spanish
cost · rank #21,956 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,956
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cortados
Nearest frequency peer: cortados (-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 “cost”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- convulsiones
convulsiones
78,048 corpus weight
- cor
cor
78,047 corpus weight
- cortados
cortados
78,046 corpus weight
- cost
cost
78,045 corpus weight
- costando
costando
78,044 corpus weight
- croatas
croatas
78,042 corpus weight
What this shows “cost” 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 | cost |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɔst] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #21,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “cost”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around cost (IPA [ˈkɔst]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,956 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Costo.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for cost, with forms such as "ccost", "cosst", and "costt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cox", "cut", "Cota", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is cost, spelled C-O-S-T.
Definition
- 1Costo.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccost
- cosst
- costt
- cots
- csot
- ocst
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cost - 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 "cost", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).