it's
/ɪts/
The verdict
“it's” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #10,360. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,360
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contracción de el pronombre it ("ello") y el verbo is ("es").
Corpus desk
Index ES-it-s · it's · Spanish
it's · rank #10,360 · 5 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,360
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH Inés
Nearest frequency peer: Inés (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “it's”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- insisto
insisto
89,644 corpus weight
- introdujo
introdujo
89,643 corpus weight
- Inés
Inés
89,642 corpus weight
- it's
it's
89,641 corpus weight
- Jan
Jan
89,640 corpus weight
- Jessica
Jessica
89,639 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “it's” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | it's |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Contraction |
| IPA | /ɪts/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #10,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “it's” en la frecuencia del español
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around it's (IPA /ɪts/), acontraction. Corpus frequency is #10,360 among 3,428 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Contracción de el pronombre it ("ello") y el verbo is ("es").".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for it's, with forms such as "i'ts", "it'ss", and "its'". 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, "its", "ita", "Ius", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is it's, spelled I-T-'-S.
Definition
- 1Contracción de el pronombre it ("ello") y el verbo is ("es").
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- i'ts
- it'ss
- its'
- itt's
- ti's
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of it's - 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 "it's", 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).
What to do next
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- "it's" maps to 14 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "its". View pair
- 5 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #10,360 among Spanish headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more Spanish words in the "I" letter cohort. I–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.