dark
/dɑːk/
The verdict
“dark” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #12,794. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,794
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oscuro.
Corpus desk
Index ES-dark · dark · Spanish
dark · rank #12,794 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,794
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH cuerno
Nearest frequency peer: cuerno (-2 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 “dark”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- creaciones
creaciones
87,211 corpus weight
- criar
criar
87,210 corpus weight
- cuerno
cuerno
87,209 corpus weight
- dark
dark
87,207 corpus weight
- demuestre
demuestre
87,205 corpus weight
- desigual
desigual
87,203 corpus weight
What this shows “dark” 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 | dark |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /dɑːk/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,794 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “dark”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around dark (IPA /dɑːk/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,794 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for dark, with forms such as "adrk", "dakr", and "darkk". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "das", "day", "der", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is dark, spelled D-A-R-K.
Definition
- 1Oscuro.
- 2Moreno.
- 3Que tiene una pequeña cantidad de leche o crema
- 4Oculto
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adrk
- dakr
- darkk
- darrk
- ddark
- drak
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dark - 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 "dark", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).