insecto
[ĩnˈsekt̪o]
The verdict
“insecto” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #15,128. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,128
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Animal invertebrado, del filo de los artrópodos, miembro de la clase Insecta, caracterizado por poseer seis patas, hasta cuatro alas, y exoesqueleto, como por ejemplo, las mariposas, las moscas, lo...
Corpus desk
Index ES-insecto · insecto · Spanish
insecto · rank #15,128 · 11 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,128
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH inscribirse
Nearest frequency peer: inscribirse (-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 “insecto”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- injustamente
injustamente
84,876 corpus weight
- innovadores
innovadores
84,875 corpus weight
- inscribirse
inscribirse
84,874 corpus weight
- insecto
insecto
84,873 corpus weight
- insistiendo
insistiendo
84,872 corpus weight
- interesar
interesar
84,871 corpus weight
What this shows “insecto” 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 | insecto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ĩnˈsekt̪o] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “insecto”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around insecto (IPA [ĩnˈsekt̪o]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,128 among 3,428 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Animal invertebrado, del filo de los artrópodos, miembro de la clase Insecta, caracterizado por poseer seis patas, hasta cuatro alas, y exoesqueleto, como por ejemplo, las mariposas, las moscas, lo...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for insecto, with forms such as "incecto", "inescto", and "innsecto". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "intento", "insulto", "invento", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is insecto, spelled I-N-S-E-C-T-O.
Definition
- 1Animal invertebrado, del filo de los artrópodos, miembro de la clase Insecta, caracterizado por poseer seis patas, hasta cuatro alas, y exoesqueleto, como por ejemplo, las mariposas, las moscas, los escarabajos o las hormigas.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- incecto
- inescto
- innsecto
- insceto
- inseccto
- insecot
- insectto
- insetco
- inssecto
- isnecto
- nisecto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of insecto - 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 "insecto", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).