laburo
[laˈβ̞uɾo]
The verdict
“laburo” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #16,143. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,143
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ocupación que se desempeña por una retribución.
Corpus desk
Index ES-laburo · laburo · Spanish
laburo · rank #16,143 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,143
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH interferir
Nearest frequency peer: interferir (-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 “laburo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- instalados
instalados
83,861 corpus weight
- interferir
interferir
83,859 corpus weight
- laburo
laburo
83,858 corpus weight
- Laurent
Laurent
83,857 corpus weight
- lotes
lotes
83,856 corpus weight
- madrileña
madrileña
83,855 corpus weight
What this shows “laburo” 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 | laburo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [laˈβ̞uɾo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,143 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “laburo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around laburo (IPA [laˈβ̞uɾo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,143 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for laburo, with forms such as "alburo", "labburo", and "labruo". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "libro", "Laura", "lauro", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is laburo, spelled L-A-B-U-R-O.
Definition
- 1Ocupación que se desempeña por una retribución.
- 2Tarea fatigosa y esforzada.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how laburo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Recordaba aquellas horas de garufa cuando minga de laburo se pasaba; meta punga al codillo escolaseaba y en los burros se ligaba un metejón.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alburo
- labburo
- labruo
- labuor
- laburro
- laubro
- lavuro
- lbauro
- llaburo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of laburo - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "laburo", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).