duque
[ˈd̪uke]
The verdict
“duque” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #3,548. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,548
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Título nobiliario de mayor dignidad, entre la nobleza europea.
Corpus desk
Index ES-duque · duque · Spanish
duque · rank #3,548 · 6 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,548
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH directora
Nearest frequency peer: directora (-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 “duque”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- desierto
desierto
96,456 corpus weight
- destruir
destruir
96,455 corpus weight
- directora
directora
96,454 corpus weight
- duque
duque
96,453 corpus weight
- editor
editor
96,452 corpus weight
- educativo
educativo
96,451 corpus weight
What this shows “duque” 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 | duque |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈd̪uke] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “duque”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around duque (IPA [ˈd̪uke]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,548 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for duque, with forms such as "dduque", "dquue", and "duqeu". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "duques", "duquesa", "due", and more, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is duque, spelled D-U-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Título nobiliario de mayor dignidad, entre la nobleza europea.
- 2En la antigua Roma, general de un ejército o militar a cuyo cargo estaban una o más provincias.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how duque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«El embajador inglés Mr. W. Godolplin, en la Cámara del Rey, dijo al día siguiente al duque de Medinaceli (…): “He escrito a mi Rey que en Inglaterra hay un Parlamento que suele hacer al Rey andar con la ley a su dictado: que se consuele; que peor es en España donde cada señor es un Parlamento que le impone leves al Rey; y yo también he de decírselo al re…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dduque
- dquue
- duqeu
- duqque
- duuqe
- udque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of duque - 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 "duque", 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).