iron
/ˈaɪ.ən/
The verdict
“iron” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #14,630. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,630
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hierro.
Corpus desk
Index ES-iron · iron · Spanish
iron · rank #14,630 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,630
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH invitaron
Nearest frequency peer: invitaron (-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 “iron”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- invasores
invasores
85,374 corpus weight
- invernadero
invernadero
85,373 corpus weight
- invitaron
invitaron
85,372 corpus weight
- iron
iron
85,371 corpus weight
- Janet
Janet
85,370 corpus weight
- juegue
juegue
85,368 corpus weight
What this shows “iron” 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 | iron |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈaɪ.ən/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “iron”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around iron (IPA /ˈaɪ.ən/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,630 among 3,428 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for iron, with forms such as "iorn", "irno", and "ironn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "iso", "irse", "Iván", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is iron, spelled I-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Hierro.
- 2Fierro.
- 3Plancha.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iorn
- irno
- ironn
- irron
- rion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of iron - 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 "iron", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).