Juan
[ˈxwãn]
The verdict
“Juan” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #387. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #387
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 645
- “J” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nombre de pila de varón.
Corpus desk
Index ES-juan · Juan · Spanish
Juan · rank #387 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #387
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 645
- PHOTO-FINISH ayuda
Nearest frequency peer: ayuda (-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 “Juan”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- servicio
servicio
99,617 corpus weight
- situación
situación
99,616 corpus weight
- ayuda
ayuda
99,615 corpus weight
- Juan
Juan
99,614 corpus weight
- libro
libro
99,613 corpus weight
- siguiente
siguiente
99,612 corpus weight
What this shows “Juan” 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 | Juan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈxwãn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Juan”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Juan (IPA [ˈxwãn]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #387 among 645 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nombre de pila de varón.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Juan, with forms such as "jaun", "jjuan", and "juann". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jul", "jus", "jue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Juan, spelled J-U-A-N.
Definition
- 1Nombre de pila de varón.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jaun
- jjuan
- juann
- juna
- ujan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Juan - 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
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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).