Heredia
[eˈɾeð̞ja]
The verdict
“Heredia” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #13,924. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,924
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ciudad de Costa Rica, donde es también conocida como las ciudad de las flores.
Corpus desk
Index ES-heredia · Heredia · Spanish
Heredia · rank #13,924 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,924
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH Hernando
Nearest frequency peer: Hernando (+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 “Heredia”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- genérico
genérico
86,080 corpus weight
- geográficas
geográficas
86,079 corpus weight
- Heredia
Heredia
86,077 corpus weight
- Hernando
Hernando
86,076 corpus weight
- hidrógeno
hidrógeno
86,075 corpus weight
- history
history
86,074 corpus weight
What this shows “Heredia” 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 | Heredia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [eˈɾeð̞ja] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Heredia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Heredia (IPA [eˈɾeð̞ja]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #13,924 among 1,569 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Heredia, with forms such as "ehredia", "heerdia", and "herdeia". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "herida", "hernia", "herejía", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is Heredia, spelled H-E-R-E-D-I-A.
Definition
- 1Ciudad de Costa Rica, donde es también conocida como las ciudad de las flores.
- 2Cantón de Costa Rica.
- 3Provincia de Costa Rica, es la más pequeña del país.
- 4Apellido. Considerado apellido vasco.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehredia
- heerdia
- herdeia
- heredai
- hereddia
- hereida
- herredia
- hheredia
- hreedia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Heredia - 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 "Heredia", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).