erecto
[eˈɾekt̪o]
The verdict
“erecto” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #39,737. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,737
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que se alza o extiende recto.
Corpus desk
Index ES-erecto · erecto · Spanish
erecto · rank #39,737 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,737
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH escarabajos
Nearest frequency peer: escarabajos (+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 “erecto”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- entrevistada
entrevistada
60,268 corpus weight
- envasado
envasado
60,267 corpus weight
- equivalenci…
equivalencias
60,266 corpus weight
- erecto
erecto
60,264 corpus weight
- escarabajos
escarabajos
60,263 corpus weight
- escribanos
escribanos
60,262 corpus weight
What this shows “erecto” 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 | erecto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [eˈɾekt̪o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #39,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “erecto”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around erecto (IPA [eˈɾekt̪o]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,737 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for erecto, with forms such as "eercto", "erceto", and "ereccto". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "evento", "exacto", "exento", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is erecto, spelled E-R-E-C-T-O.
Definition
- 1Que se alza o extiende recto.
- 2Que se alza sobre el plano horizontal, dicho especialmente de una construcción.
- 3Dicho de una persona, que está teniendo una erección₂.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how erecto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entretanto, míralos: con sus ocho patas // de ganchos puntales; // la panza escamosa con su par de peines // de diáfanos ámbares; // el dorso enarcado y hecho con sortijas // pequeñas y gráciles; // vívidos los ojos múltiples; erecta // la cola y vibrante, // y abriendo y cerrando las férreas tenazas // inquisitoriales, // por entre la yerba, // tijeretea…
Erecta audazmente, circular, brillando al sol su cubierta de placas de acero de los talleres de Westinhouse, por un interior corría con espantable ruido el humo saturado de corpúsculos metálicos en ignición, que emergía de los hornos donde se refinaba el cobre y luego, dando un paso circular en una caverna de ladrillo refractario dejando oír al exterior f…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eercto
- erceto
- ereccto
- erecot
- erectto
- eretco
- errecto
- reecto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of erecto - 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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