grillo
[ˈgɾiʝo]
The verdict
“grillo” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #24,517. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,517
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (familia Gryllidae) Cualquiera de casi un millar de especies de insectos ortópteros, de hasta 3 cm de largo, cabeza grande, antenas largas y dorso aplanado, alas anteriores duras y patas posteriore...
Corpus desk
Index ES-grillo · grillo · Spanish
grillo · rank #24,517 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,517
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH guatemaltecos
Nearest frequency peer: guatemaltecos (+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 “grillo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- glándula
glándula
75,487 corpus weight
- gobernanza
gobernanza
75,486 corpus weight
- grillo
grillo
75,484 corpus weight
- guatemaltec…
guatemaltecos
75,483 corpus weight
- hacete
hacete
75,482 corpus weight
- half
half
75,481 corpus weight
What this shows “grillo” 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 | grillo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgɾiʝo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #24,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “grillo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around grillo (IPA [ˈgɾiʝo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,517 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(familia Gryllidae) Cualquiera de casi un millar de especies de insectos ortópteros, de hasta 3 cm de largo, cabeza grande, antenas largas y dorso aplanado, alas anteriores duras y patas posteriore...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for grillo, with forms such as "ggrillo", "girllo", and "grilo". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "grito", "gringo", "grillos", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is grillo, spelled G-R-I-L-L-O.
Definition
- 1(familia Gryllidae) Cualquiera de casi un millar de especies de insectos ortópteros, de hasta 3 cm de largo, cabeza grande, antenas largas y dorso aplanado, alas anteriores duras y patas posteriores adaptadas para saltar. El sonido que producen para el cortejo frotando las alas entre sí es característico.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggrillo
- girllo
- grilo
- grilol
- grlilo
- grrillo
- rgillo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grillo - 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
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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 (7 here; floor ≥5).