gaviota
[gaˈβ̞jot̪a]
The verdict
“gaviota” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #19,741. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,741
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nombre común de la mayoría de las especies de aves de la familia Laridae. Son aves de ambientes acuáticos, que se reúnen en colonias y son principalmente depredadoras o carroñeras, pero también pue...
Corpus desk
Index ES-gaviota · gaviota · Spanish
gaviota · rank #19,741 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,741
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH garage
Nearest frequency peer: garage (-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 “gaviota”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- fricción
fricción
80,264 corpus weight
- galleta
galleta
80,262 corpus weight
- garage
garage
80,261 corpus weight
- gaviota
gaviota
80,260 corpus weight
- gemelo
gemelo
80,259 corpus weight
- generalizac…
generalización
80,257 corpus weight
What this shows “gaviota” 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 | gaviota |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [gaˈβ̞jot̪a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “gaviota”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around gaviota (IPA [gaˈβ̞jot̪a]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,741 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nombre común de la mayoría de las especies de aves de la familia Laridae. Son aves de ambientes acuáticos, que se reúnen en colonias y son principalmente depredadoras o carroñeras, pero también pue...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for gaviota, with forms such as "agviota", "gabiota", and "gaivota". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Gaviria", "gaviotas", "gaita", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is gaviota, spelled G-A-V-I-O-T-A.
Definition
- 1Nombre común de la mayoría de las especies de aves de la familia Laridae. Son aves de ambientes acuáticos, que se reúnen en colonias y son principalmente depredadoras o carroñeras, pero también pueden consumir alimentos de origen vegetal. Su plumaje de adulto suele contener los colores blanco, gris y negro, mientras que el pico y las patas pueden ser amarillos, rojos o de tonnos intermedios entre ambos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agviota
- gabiota
- gaivota
- gavioat
- gaviotta
- gavitoa
- gavoita
- gavviota
- ggaviota
- gvaiota
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gaviota - 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
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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 (10 here; floor ≥5).