flanco
[ˈflãŋko]
The verdict
“flanco” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #19,116. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,116
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cada una de las dos partes laterales de un cuerpo considerándolo de frente.
Corpus desk
Index ES-flanco · flanco · Spanish
flanco · rank #19,116 · 9 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,116
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH financia
Nearest frequency peer: financia (-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 “flanco”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- festivos
festivos
80,888 corpus weight
- fiar
fiar
80,887 corpus weight
- financia
financia
80,886 corpus weight
- flanco
flanco
80,885 corpus weight
- fluvial
fluvial
80,884 corpus weight
- Gerona
Gerona
80,883 corpus weight
What this shows “flanco” 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 | flanco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈflãŋko] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “flanco”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around flanco (IPA [ˈflãŋko]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,116 among 2,333 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for flanco, with forms such as "falnco", "fflanco", and "flacno". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "franco", "France", "Franca", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is flanco, spelled F-L-A-N-C-O.
Definition
- 1Cada una de las dos partes laterales de un cuerpo considerándolo de frente.
- 2Costado, lado de un buque o de un cuerpo de tropa (como de navío, batallón, escuadrón, etc.).
- 3Parte del baluarte que hace ángulo entrante con la cortina, y saliente con el frente.
- 4Cada uno de los dos muros que unen al recinto fortificado las caras de un baluarte.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- falnco
- fflanco
- flacno
- flancco
- flannco
- flanoc
- fllanco
- flnaco
- lfanco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flanco - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "flanco", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).