homosexual
[omosekˈswal]
The verdict
“homosexual” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #7,173. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,173
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que siente atracción sexual hacia individuos del mismo sexo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-homosexual · homosexual · Spanish
homosexual · rank #7,173 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #7,173
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH hierba
Nearest frequency peer: hierba (-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 “homosexual”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- gobernante
gobernante
92,831 corpus weight
- hermosos
hermosos
92,830 corpus weight
- hierba
hierba
92,829 corpus weight
- homosexual
homosexual
92,828 corpus weight
- homosexuales
homosexuales
92,827 corpus weight
- il
il
92,826 corpus weight
What this shows “homosexual” 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 | homosexual |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [omosekˈswal] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #7,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “homosexual”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around homosexual (IPA [omosekˈswal]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,173 among 1,569 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for homosexual, with forms such as "hhomosexual", "hmoosexual", and "hommosexual". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "homosexuales", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is homosexual, spelled H-O-M-O-S-E-X-U-A-L.
Definition
- 1Que siente atracción sexual hacia individuos del mismo sexo.
- 2Que pertenece o concierne a la homosexualidad u homosexualismo, o a la relación erótica entre individuos del mismo sexo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhomosexual
- hmoosexual
- hommosexual
- homocexual
- homoesxual
- homoseuxal
- homosexaul
- homosexuall
- homosexula
- homosexxual
- homossexual
- homosxeual
- homsoexual
- hoomsexual
- ohmosexual
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of homosexual - 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 "homosexual", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).