kill
/kɪl/
The verdict
“kill” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,112) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,112
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 248
- “K” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Matar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-kill · kill · Spanish
kill · rank #23,112 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,112
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 248
- PHOTO-FINISH Kirk
Nearest frequency peer: Kirk (+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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “kill”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- juegues
juegues
76,893 corpus weight
- jugarán
jugarán
76,892 corpus weight
- kill
kill
76,889 corpus weight
- Kirk
Kirk
76,888 corpus weight
- labial
labial
76,886 corpus weight
- lam
lam
76,884 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “kill” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | kill |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kɪl/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #23,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “kill”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kill is neighbouring look-alikes ("Kim", "kit", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /kɪl/. Frequency #23,112 among 248 “K” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for kill, with forms such as "ikll", "kil", and "kkill". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Kim", "kit", "kin", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is kill, spelled K-I-L-L.
Definition
- 1Matar.
- 2Apagar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kill appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ikll
- kil
- kkill
- klil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kill - 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 "kill", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).