Cúcuta
[ˈkukut̪a]
The verdict
“Cúcuta” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #18,779. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,779
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capital del departamento de Norte de Santander, situada en la cordillera oriental de Los Andes colombianos, a 320 metros de altitud y cerca de la frontera con Venezuela. Coordenadas decimales: 7.92...
Corpus desk
Index ES-cucuta · Cúcuta · Spanish
Cúcuta · rank #18,779 · 8 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,779
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cubra
Nearest frequency peer: cubra (-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 “Cúcuta”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- contraparte
contraparte
81,227 corpus weight
- cora
cora
81,225 corpus weight
- coronación
coronación
81,224 corpus weight
- cubra
cubra
81,223 corpus weight
- Cúcuta
Cúcuta
81,222 corpus weight
- defienda
defienda
81,219 corpus weight
What this shows “Cúcuta” 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 | Cúcuta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈkukut̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Cúcuta”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Cúcuta (IPA [ˈkukut̪a]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #18,779 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Capital del departamento de Norte de Santander, situada en la cordillera oriental de Los Andes colombianos, a 320 metros de altitud y cerca de la frontera con Venezuela. Coordenadas decimales: 7.92...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cúcuta, with forms such as "ccúcuta", "ccúuta", and "cúccuta". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "cuota", "culta", "cuenta", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is Cúcuta, spelled C-Ú-C-U-T-A.
Definition
- 1Capital del departamento de Norte de Santander, situada en la cordillera oriental de Los Andes colombianos, a 320 metros de altitud y cerca de la frontera con Venezuela. Coordenadas decimales: 7.92°, -72.50°.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccúcuta
- ccúuta
- cúccuta
- cúctua
- cúcuat
- cúcutta
- cúucta
- úccuta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cúcuta - 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
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).