culto
[ˈkul̪t̪o]
The verdict
“culto” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #3,769. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,769
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que tiene instrucción o cultura. Que ha leído y conoce información a fondo sobre muchos temas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-culto · culto · Spanish
culto · rank #3,769 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,769
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH coordinación
Nearest frequency peer: coordinación (-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 “culto”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- coches
coches
96,235 corpus weight
- combatir
combatir
96,234 corpus weight
- coordinación
coordinación
96,233 corpus weight
- culto
culto
96,232 corpus weight
- Dato
Dato
96,231 corpus weight
- dependiendo
dependiendo
96,230 corpus weight
What this shows “culto” 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 | culto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈkul̪t̪o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “culto”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around culto (IPA [ˈkul̪t̪o]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,769 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for culto, with forms such as "cculto", "cluto", and "cullto". 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, "cut", "cuyo", "cupo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is culto, spelled C-U-L-T-O.
Definition
- 1Que tiene instrucción o cultura. Que ha leído y conoce información a fondo sobre muchos temas.
- 2Se dice de las tierras o las plantas cultivadas, es decir, que se siembran y hacen producir para beneficio humano.
- 3Se aplicaba a quienes practicaban el culteranismo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cculto
- cluto
- cullto
- culot
- cultto
- cutlo
- uclto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of culto - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "culto", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).