horrible
[oˈriβ̞le]
The verdict
“horrible” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #2,666. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,666
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que provoca o tiende a provocar horror.
Corpus desk
Index ES-horrible · horrible · Spanish
horrible · rank #2,666 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #2,666
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH huevo
Nearest frequency peer: huevo (+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 “horrible”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- fuimos
fuimos
97,338 corpus weight
- funcionamie…
funcionamiento
97,337 corpus weight
- horrible
horrible
97,335 corpus weight
- huevo
huevo
97,334 corpus weight
- incluido
incluido
97,333 corpus weight
- informes
informes
97,332 corpus weight
What this shows “horrible” 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 | horrible |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [oˈriβ̞le] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “horrible”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around horrible (IPA [oˈriβ̞le]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,666 among 1,569 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for horrible, with forms such as "hhorrible", "horible", and "horirble". 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, "horribles", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is horrible, spelled H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Que provoca o tiende a provocar horror.
- 2Que es muy desagradable, que tiene mal aspecto.
- 3Que es de mal gusto o de muy baja calidad.
- 4Que es muy intenso.
- 5Sumamente malo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how horrible appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
El amoníaco huele horrible
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhorrible
- horible
- horirble
- horrbile
- horribble
- horribel
- horriblle
- horrilbe
- horrivle
- hrorible
- ohrrible
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of horrible - 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 "horrible", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).