Cusco
[ˈkusko]
The verdict
“Cusco” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #13,431. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,431
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ciudad del Perú, situada a 3400metros sobre el nivel del mar, fundada por Manco Capac en el siglo xi, fue la capital del imperio inca hasta 1533. Centro arqueológico y turístico. A sus habitantes s...
Corpus desk
Index ES-cusco · Cusco · Spanish
Cusco · rank #13,431 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,431
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cuide
Nearest frequency peer: cuide (-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 “Cusco”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- cotización
cotización
86,573 corpus weight
- cuelga
cuelga
86,572 corpus weight
- cuide
cuide
86,571 corpus weight
- Cusco
Cusco
86,570 corpus weight
- decido
decido
86,568 corpus weight
- decime
decime
86,567 corpus weight
What this shows “Cusco” 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 | Cusco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈkusko] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,431 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Cusco”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Cusco (IPA [ˈkusko]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #13,431 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ciudad del Perú, situada a 3400metros sobre el nivel del mar, fundada por Manco Capac en el siglo xi, fue la capital del imperio inca hasta 1533. Centro arqueológico y turístico. A sus habitantes s...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cusco, with forms such as "ccusco", "csuco", and "cucso". 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, "cuyo", "Cuzco", "custom", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is Cusco, spelled C-U-S-C-O.
Definition
- 1Ciudad del Perú, situada a 3400metros sobre el nivel del mar, fundada por Manco Capac en el siglo xi, fue la capital del imperio inca hasta 1533. Centro arqueológico y turístico. A sus habitantes se les llama cuzqueños.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccusco
- csuco
- cucso
- cuscco
- cusoc
- cussco
- ucsco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cusco - 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
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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).