costando
[kosˈt̪ãn̪d̪o]
The verdict
“costando” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #21,957. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,957
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gerundio de costar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-costando · costando · Spanish
costando · rank #21,957 · 12 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,957
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cost
Nearest frequency peer: cost (-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 “costando”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- 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
- cronograma
cronograma
78,041 corpus weight
What this shows “costando” 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 | costando |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kosˈt̪ãn̪d̪o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,957 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “costando”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around costando (IPA [kosˈt̪ãn̪d̪o]), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,957 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Gerundio de costar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for costando, with forms such as "ccostando", "cosatndo", and "cosstando". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "costado", "contado", "comando", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is costando, spelled C-O-S-T-A-N-D-O.
Definition
- 1Gerundio de costar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccostando
- cosatndo
- cosstando
- costadno
- costanddo
- costanndo
- costanod
- costnado
- costtando
- cotsando
- csotando
- ocstando
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of costando - 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 "costando", 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).