devil
/ˈdɛv.əl/
The verdict
“devil” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #36,529. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,529
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Diablo, demonio.
Corpus desk
Index ES-devil · devil · Spanish
devil · rank #36,529 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,529
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH determinando
Nearest frequency peer: determinando (-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 “devil”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- destacables
destacables
63,475 corpus weight
- desvelar
desvelar
63,474 corpus weight
- determinando
determinando
63,473 corpus weight
- devil
devil
63,472 corpus weight
- devora
devora
63,471 corpus weight
- dictámenes
dictámenes
63,470 corpus weight
What this shows “devil” 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 | devil |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɛv.əl/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “devil”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around devil (IPA /ˈdɛv.əl/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,529 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Diablo, demonio.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for devil, with forms such as "ddevil", "debil", and "deivl". 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, "dócil", "del", "debí", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 devil, spelled D-E-V-I-L.
Definition
- 1Diablo, demonio.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddevil
- debil
- deivl
- devill
- devli
- devvil
- dveil
- edvil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of devil - 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 "devil", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).