kayak
[kaˈʝak]
The verdict
“kayak” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #36,638. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,638
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 248
- “K” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Canoa completamente cubierta con pieles que usaban los inuit en las aguas árticas para pescar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-kayak · kayak · Spanish
kayak · rank #36,638 · 7 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,638
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 248
- PHOTO-FINISH Kioto
Nearest frequency peer: Kioto (+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 “kayak”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Jude
Jude
63,366 corpus weight
- Juli
Juli
63,365 corpus weight
- kayak
kayak
63,363 corpus weight
- Kioto
Kioto
63,362 corpus weight
- labs
labs
63,359 corpus weight
- ladrando
ladrando
63,358 corpus weight
What this shows “kayak” 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 | kayak |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈʝak] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “kayak”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around kayak (IPA [kaˈʝak]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,638 among 248 “K” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for kayak, with forms such as "akyak", "kaayk", and "kayakk". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "kay", "kara", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is kayak, spelled K-A-Y-A-K.
Definition
- 1Canoa completamente cubierta con pieles que usaban los inuit en las aguas árticas para pescar.
- 2Embarcación deportiva fabricada con materiales sintéticos siguiendo la idea original de los inuit, de hacer una canoa insumergible, liviana y muy manejable.
- 3Canotaje. Competencia deportiva con tales embarcaciones.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- akyak
- kaayk
- kayakk
- kayka
- kayyak
- kkayak
- kyaak
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kayak - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "kayak", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).