incurable
[ĩŋkuˈɾaβ̞le]
The verdict
“incurable” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #35,560. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,560
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que no es posible curar o no se puede sanar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-incurable · incurable · Spanish
incurable · rank #35,560 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,560
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH Inda
Nearest frequency peer: Inda (+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 “incurable”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- inactiva
inactiva
64,446 corpus weight
- inclinan
inclinan
64,445 corpus weight
- incluimos
incluimos
64,444 corpus weight
- incurable
incurable
64,441 corpus weight
- Inda
Inda
64,440 corpus weight
- indices
indices
64,439 corpus weight
What this shows “incurable” 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 | incurable |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ĩŋkuˈɾaβ̞le] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #35,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “incurable”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around incurable (IPA [ĩŋkuˈɾaβ̞le]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #35,560 among 3,428 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for incurable, with forms such as "icnurable", "inccurable", and "incruable". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "indudable", "inmutable", "infumable", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 incurable, spelled I-N-C-U-R-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Que no es posible curar o no se puede sanar.
- 2Que es muy difícil de curar.
- 3Incorregible, que no tiene enmienda.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- icnurable
- inccurable
- incruable
- incuarble
- incurabble
- incurabel
- incurablle
- incuralbe
- incuravle
- incurbale
- incurrable
- inncurable
- inucrable
- nicurable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of incurable - 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 "incurable", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).