Fonseca
[fõnˈseka]
The verdict
“Fonseca” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #16,586. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,586
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apellido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fonseca · Fonseca · Spanish
Fonseca · rank #16,586 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,586
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH fluidez
Nearest frequency peer: fluidez (-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 “Fonseca”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- fast
fast
83,418 corpus weight
- filtración
filtración
83,417 corpus weight
- fluidez
fluidez
83,416 corpus weight
- Fonseca
Fonseca
83,415 corpus weight
- formen
formen
83,414 corpus weight
- Formosa
Formosa
83,413 corpus weight
What this shows “Fonseca” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fonseca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [fõnˈseka] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Fonseca”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Fonseca (IPA [fõnˈseka]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,586 among 2,333 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Apellido.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Fonseca, with forms such as "ffonseca", "fnoseca", and "fonceca". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Fonseca, spelled F-O-N-S-E-C-A.
Definition
- 1Apellido.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffonseca
- fnoseca
- fonceca
- fonesca
- fonnseca
- fonscea
- fonseac
- fonsecca
- fonsseca
- fosneca
- ofnseca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Fonseca - 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 "Fonseca", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).