kiss
/kɪs/
The verdict
“kiss” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,726) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,726
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 248
- “K” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Beso.
Corpus desk
Index ES-kiss · kiss · Spanish
kiss · rank #20,726 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,726
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 248
- PHOTO-FINISH lavadora
Nearest frequency peer: lavadora (+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 “kiss”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- intro
intro
79,280 corpus weight
- Isaías
Isaías
79,279 corpus weight
- júbilo
júbilo
79,277 corpus weight
- kiss
kiss
79,275 corpus weight
- lavadora
lavadora
79,274 corpus weight
- levantas
levantas
79,271 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “kiss” 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 | kiss |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɪs/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #20,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “kiss”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kiss is neighbouring look-alikes ("kit", "kiwi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /kɪs/. Frequency #20,726 among 248 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Beso.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for kiss, with forms such as "ikss", "kis", and "kkiss". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "kit", "kiwi", "ki", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 kiss, spelled K-I-S-S.
Definition
- 1Beso.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kiss appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Her kiss made me crazy
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ikss
- kis
- kkiss
- ksis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kiss - 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 "kiss", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).