costal
[kosˈt̪al]
The verdict
“costal” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #32,150. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,150
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Saco grande de tela fuerte y rústica.
Corpus desk
Index ES-costal · costal · Spanish
costal · rank #32,150 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,150
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH corintios
Nearest frequency peer: corintios (-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 “costal”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- consolación
consolación
67,854 corpus weight
- copy
copy
67,853 corpus weight
- corintios
corintios
67,852 corpus weight
- costal
costal
67,851 corpus weight
- cotton
cotton
67,850 corpus weight
- crisol
crisol
67,849 corpus weight
What this shows “costal” 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 | costal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kosˈt̪al] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “costal”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around costal (IPA [kosˈt̪al]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,150 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Saco grande de tela fuerte y rústica.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for costal, with forms such as "ccostal", "cosatl", and "cosstal". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cota", "costo", "cotas", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is costal, spelled C-O-S-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Saco grande de tela fuerte y rústica.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccostal
- cosatl
- cosstal
- costall
- costla
- costtal
- cotsal
- csotal
- ocstal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of costal - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "costal", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).