escritor
[eskɾiˈt̪oɾ]
The verdict
“escritor” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #1,770. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,770
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Persona que escribe, en especial obras literarias.
Corpus desk
Index ES-escritor · escritor · Spanish
escritor · rank #1,770 · 12 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,770
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH entrega
Nearest frequency peer: entrega (-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 “escritor”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- deporte
deporte
98,234 corpus weight
- disco
disco
98,233 corpus weight
- entrega
entrega
98,232 corpus weight
- escritor
escritor
98,231 corpus weight
- etapa
etapa
98,230 corpus weight
- funcionarios
funcionarios
98,229 corpus weight
What this shows “escritor” 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 | escritor |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eskɾiˈt̪oɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “escritor”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around escritor (IPA [eskɾiˈt̪oɾ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,770 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Persona que escribe, en especial obras literarias.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for escritor, with forms such as "ecsritor", "esccritor", and "escirtor". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "escroto", "escritos", "Escultor", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is escritor, spelled E-S-C-R-I-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1Persona que escribe, en especial obras literarias.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecsritor
- esccritor
- escirtor
- escriotr
- escritorr
- escritro
- escrittor
- escrritor
- escrtior
- esrcitor
- esscritor
- secritor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of escritor - 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 "escritor", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).