heavy
/ˈhɛv.i/
The verdict
“heavy” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #11,422. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,422
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pesado.
Corpus desk
Index ES-heavy · heavy · Spanish
heavy · rank #11,422 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,422
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH grandioso
Nearest frequency peer: grandioso (-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 “heavy”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- gallinas
gallinas
88,582 corpus weight
- generalizado
generalizado
88,581 corpus weight
- grandioso
grandioso
88,580 corpus weight
- heavy
heavy
88,579 corpus weight
- hembras
hembras
88,578 corpus weight
- heroína
heroína
88,577 corpus weight
What this shows “heavy” 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 | heavy |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈhɛv.i/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “heavy”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around heavy (IPA /ˈhɛv.i/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,422 among 1,569 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pesado.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for heavy, with forms such as "ehavy", "haevy", and "heaby". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "hey", "Henry", "hay", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is heavy, spelled H-E-A-V-Y.
Definition
- 1Pesado.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehavy
- haevy
- heaby
- heavvy
- heavyy
- heayv
- hevay
- hheavy
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of heavy - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).