Gamboa
[gãmˈboa]
The verdict
“Gamboa” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #23,072. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,072
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apellido
Corpus desk
Index ES-gamboa · Gamboa · Spanish
Gamboa · rank #23,072 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,072
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH fugitivos
Nearest frequency peer: fugitivos (-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 “Gamboa”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- forzoso
forzoso
76,932 corpus weight
- franquistas
franquistas
76,931 corpus weight
- fugitivos
fugitivos
76,930 corpus weight
- Gamboa
Gamboa
76,929 corpus weight
- gemidos
gemidos
76,928 corpus weight
- geográficam…
geográficamente
76,927 corpus weight
What this shows “Gamboa” 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 | Gamboa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [gãmˈboa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Gamboa”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Gamboa (IPA [gãmˈboa]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #23,072 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Apellido".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gamboa, with forms such as "agmboa", "gabmoa", and "gambao". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "gamma", "garbo", "gama", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is Gamboa, spelled G-A-M-B-O-A.
Definition
- 1Apellido
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agmboa
- gabmoa
- gambao
- gambboa
- gammboa
- gamoba
- gamvoa
- ggamboa
- gmaboa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gamboa - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Gamboa", 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).