descriptivo
[d̪eskɾipˈt̪iβ̞o]
The verdict
“descriptivo” has 18 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #28,720. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,720
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dícese de lo que describe.
Corpus desk
Index ES-descriptivo · descriptivo · Spanish
descriptivo · rank #28,720 · 18 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,720
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH desembarcar
Nearest frequency peer: desembarcar (+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 “descriptivo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- descalifica…
descalificación
71,283 corpus weight
- descriptivo
descriptivo
71,281 corpus weight
- desembarcar
desembarcar
71,280 corpus weight
- desempeñando
desempeñando
71,279 corpus weight
- desencanto
desencanto
71,278 corpus weight
- desesperadas
desesperadas
71,277 corpus weight
What this shows “descriptivo” 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 | descriptivo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [d̪eskɾipˈt̪iβ̞o] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #28,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “descriptivo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around descriptivo (IPA [d̪eskɾipˈt̪iβ̞o]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,720 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dícese de lo que describe.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for descriptivo, with forms such as "ddescriptivo", "decsriptivo", and "desccriptivo". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "descriptiva", "description", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is descriptivo, spelled D-E-S-C-R-I-P-T-I-V-O.
Definition
- 1Dícese de lo que describe.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddescriptivo
- decsriptivo
- desccriptivo
- descirptivo
- descripitvo
- descripptivo
- descriptibo
- descriptiov
- descriptivvo
- descripttivo
- descriptvio
- descritpivo
- descrpitivo
- descrriptivo
- desrciptivo
- desscriptivo
- dsecriptivo
- edscriptivo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of descriptivo - 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 "descriptivo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).