excusa
[eksˈkusa]
The verdict
“excusa” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #3,629. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,629
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Motivo al que se recurre con el fin de eludir una responsabilidad. Evasiva.
Corpus desk
Index ES-excusa · excusa · Spanish
excusa · rank #3,629 · 8 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,629
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH escribiendo
Nearest frequency peer: escribiendo (-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 “excusa”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- equilibrio
equilibrio
96,375 corpus weight
- equivocado
equivocado
96,374 corpus weight
- escribiendo
escribiendo
96,373 corpus weight
- excusa
excusa
96,372 corpus weight
- exige
exige
96,371 corpus weight
- firmado
firmado
96,369 corpus weight
What this shows “excusa” 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 | excusa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eksˈkusa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “excusa”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around excusa (IPA [eksˈkusa]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,629 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 excusa, with forms such as "ecxusa", "exccusa", and "excsua". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "expuso", "expuse", "excusas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is excusa, spelled E-X-C-U-S-A.
Definition
- 1Motivo al que se recurre con el fin de eludir una responsabilidad. Evasiva.
- 2Disculpa o justificación.
- 3Motivo para justificar alguna acción.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how excusa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Su cumpleaños era la excusa perfecta para hacer esa fiesta
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecxusa
- exccusa
- excsua
- excuas
- excussa
- exucsa
- exxcusa
- xecusa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of excusa - 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 "excusa", 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).