detective
[d̪et̪ekˈt̪iβ̞e]
The verdict
“detective” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #9,975. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,975
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oficial de policía o investigador privado cuya función es buscar información como evidencia para resolver un crimen.
Corpus desk
Index ES-detective · detective · Spanish
detective · rank #9,975 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #9,975
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH detallado
Nearest frequency peer: detallado (-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 “detective”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- describen
describen
90,029 corpus weight
- detallado
detallado
90,027 corpus weight
- detective
detective
90,026 corpus weight
- devoción
devoción
90,025 corpus weight
- dispara
dispara
90,023 corpus weight
- Domínguez
Domínguez
90,022 corpus weight
What this shows “detective” 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 | detective |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪et̪ekˈt̪iβ̞e] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,975 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “detective”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around detective (IPA [d̪et̪ekˈt̪iβ̞e]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,975 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Oficial de policía o investigador privado cuya función es buscar información como evidencia para resolver un crimen.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for detective, with forms such as "ddetective", "deetctive", and "detcetive". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "detectives", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is detective, spelled D-E-T-E-C-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Oficial de policía o investigador privado cuya función es buscar información como evidencia para resolver un crimen.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddetective
- deetctive
- detcetive
- detecctive
- detecitve
- detectibe
- detectiev
- detectivve
- detecttive
- detectvie
- detetcive
- dettective
- dteective
- edtective
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of detective - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "detective", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).