Edipo
[eˈð̞ipo]
The verdict
“Edipo” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #33,565. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,565
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hijo de Layo y Yocasta, reyes de Tebas (Grecia), que sin saberlo asesinó a su padre y se casó con su madre, convirtiéndose en rey. Al enterarse se quitó los ojos, y deambuló mendigando por la región.
Corpus desk
Index ES-edipo · Edipo · Spanish
Edipo · rank #33,565 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,565
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH economist
Nearest frequency peer: economist (-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 “Edipo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- eagle
eagle
66,440 corpus weight
- echada
echada
66,439 corpus weight
- echaremos
echaremos
66,438 corpus weight
- economist
economist
66,437 corpus weight
- Edipo
Edipo
66,436 corpus weight
- efemérides
efemérides
66,435 corpus weight
What this shows “Edipo” 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 | Edipo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [eˈð̞ipo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #33,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Edipo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Edipo (IPA [eˈð̞ipo]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #33,565 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Hijo de Layo y Yocasta, reyes de Tebas (Grecia), que sin saberlo asesinó a su padre y se casó con su madre, convirtiéndose en rey. Al enterarse se quitó los ojos, y deambuló mendigando por la región.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Edipo, with forms such as "deipo", "eddipo", and "ediop". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "edo", "edit", "expo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is Edipo, spelled E-D-I-P-O.
Definition
- 1Hijo de Layo y Yocasta, reyes de Tebas (Grecia), que sin saberlo asesinó a su padre y se casó con su madre, convirtiéndose en rey. Al enterarse se quitó los ojos, y deambuló mendigando por la región.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Edipo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Edipo se enamoró de la reina Yocasta, luego de asesinar a su esposo, el rey Layo.
Sófocles escribió una trilogía trágica sobre el mito de Edipo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- deipo
- eddipo
- ediop
- edippo
- edpio
- eidpo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Edipo - 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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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).