impulso
[ĩmˈpulso]
The verdict
“impulso” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #4,344. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,344
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción o efecto de impulsar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-impulso · impulso · Spanish
impulso · rank #4,344 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,344
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH humilde
Nearest frequency peer: humilde (-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 “impulso”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- hagamos
hagamos
95,659 corpus weight
- humilde
humilde
95,658 corpus weight
- impulso
impulso
95,657 corpus weight
- informar
informar
95,656 corpus weight
- instancia
instancia
95,655 corpus weight
- izquierdo
izquierdo
95,654 corpus weight
What this shows “impulso” 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 | impulso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ĩmˈpulso] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,344 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “impulso”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around impulso (IPA [ĩmˈpulso]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,344 among 3,428 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for impulso, with forms such as "immpulso", "impluso", and "imppulso". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "impuso", "impulsos", "impulsor", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is impulso, spelled I-M-P-U-L-S-O.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de impulsar.
- 2Sugestión o instigación.
- 3Dícese del estímulo que se hace en la promoción de algo.
- 4Fuerza con que a veces se actúa de manera rápida y sin haber reflexionado.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immpulso
- impluso
- imppulso
- impullso
- impulos
- impulsso
- impuslo
- imuplso
- ipmulso
- mipulso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impulso - 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 "impulso", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).