kelvin
[ˈkelβ̞ĩn]
The verdict
“kelvin” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #37,177. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,177
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 248
- “K” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unidad de temperatura creada por Lord Kelvin sobre la base de la escala centígrada, estableciendo el punto cero en el cero absoluto (-273,15ºC) y conservando la misma dimensión para los grados.
Corpus desk
Index ES-kelvin · kelvin · Spanish
kelvin · rank #37,177 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,177
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 248
- PHOTO-FINISH kamikaze
Nearest frequency peer: kamikaze (-2 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 “kelvin”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- juntamente
juntamente
62,828 corpus weight
- kamikaze
kamikaze
62,826 corpus weight
- kelvin
kelvin
62,824 corpus weight
- laborables
laborables
62,822 corpus weight
- labranza
labranza
62,821 corpus weight
- laicismo
laicismo
62,820 corpus weight
What this shows “kelvin” 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 | kelvin |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkelβ̞ĩn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “kelvin”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around kelvin (IPA [ˈkelβ̞ĩn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,177 among 248 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Unidad de temperatura creada por Lord Kelvin sobre la base de la escala centígrada, estableciendo el punto cero en el cero absoluto (-273,15ºC) y conservando la misma dimensión para los grados.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for kelvin, with forms such as "eklvin", "kelbin", and "kelivn". 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, "Kevin", "klein", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is kelvin, spelled K-E-L-V-I-N.
Definition
- 1Unidad de temperatura creada por Lord Kelvin sobre la base de la escala centígrada, estableciendo el punto cero en el cero absoluto (-273,15ºC) y conservando la misma dimensión para los grados.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eklvin
- kelbin
- kelivn
- kellvin
- kelvinn
- kelvni
- kelvvin
- kevlin
- kkelvin
- klevin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kelvin - 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 "kelvin", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).