electo
[eˈlekt̪o]
The verdict
“electo” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #5,717. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,717
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dice de la persona elegida para algún cargo antes de ser confirmado en él.
Corpus desk
Index ES-electo · electo · Spanish
electo · rank #5,717 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,717
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH duros
Nearest frequency peer: duros (-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 “electo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- divina
divina
94,286 corpus weight
- duros
duros
94,285 corpus weight
- electo
electo
94,284 corpus weight
- elegidos
elegidos
94,283 corpus weight
- encargo
encargo
94,282 corpus weight
- encontraban
encontraban
94,281 corpus weight
What this shows “electo” 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 | electo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [eˈlekt̪o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “electo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around electo (IPA [eˈlekt̪o]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,717 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Se dice de la persona elegida para algún cargo antes de ser confirmado en él.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for electo, with forms such as "eelcto", "elceto", and "eleccto". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "evento", "exacto", "elenco", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is electo, spelled E-L-E-C-T-O.
Definition
- 1Se dice de la persona elegida para algún cargo antes de ser confirmado en él.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eelcto
- elceto
- eleccto
- elecot
- electto
- eletco
- ellecto
- leecto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of electo - 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 "electo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).