huelga
[ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝elɣ̞a]
The verdict
“huelga” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #3,711. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,711
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Interrupción o alteración que los trabajadores hacen de su actividad para protestar contra las condiciones en las que la desempeñan.
Corpus desk
Index ES-huelga · huelga · Spanish
huelga · rank #3,711 · 8 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,711
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH habiendo
Nearest frequency peer: habiendo (-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 “huelga”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Guillermo
Guillermo
96,293 corpus weight
- gustado
gustado
96,292 corpus weight
- habiendo
habiendo
96,291 corpus weight
- huelga
huelga
96,290 corpus weight
- inicia
inicia
96,289 corpus weight
- instalación
instalación
96,287 corpus weight
What this shows “huelga” 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 | huelga |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝elɣ̞a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “huelga”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around huelga (IPA [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝elɣ̞a]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,711 among 1,569 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for huelga, with forms such as "heulga", "hhuelga", and "huegla". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "hueva", "Huila", "huelo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is huelga, spelled H-U-E-L-G-A.
Definition
- 1Interrupción o alteración que los trabajadores hacen de su actividad para protestar contra las condiciones en las que la desempeñan.
- 2Período de descanso u ocio.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how huelga appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«Respecto a la jornada de ocho horas de trabajo hay que reconocer que ya estaba implantada en numerosas actividades urbanas, pero en los ingenios se seguía manteniendo la tradicional regulación de doce horas diarias de labor dividida en dos “cuartos” de a seis. La huelga de los obreros de Cienfuegos tuvo una profunda repercusión en toda la Isla: hasta ent…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- heulga
- hhuelga
- huegla
- huelag
- huelgga
- huellga
- hulega
- uhelga
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of huelga - 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 "huelga", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).