lactosa
[lakˈt̪osa]
The verdict
“lactosa” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #32,736. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,736
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Disacárido formado por la unión de una molécula de glucosa y otra de galactosa, que está presente en la leche.
Corpus desk
Index ES-lactosa · lactosa · Spanish
lactosa · rank #32,736 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,736
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH lacio
Nearest frequency peer: lacio (-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 “lactosa”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- kurdos
kurdos
67,268 corpus weight
- lacayo
lacayo
67,267 corpus weight
- lacio
lacio
67,266 corpus weight
- lactosa
lactosa
67,265 corpus weight
- landa
landa
67,264 corpus weight
- larva
larva
67,263 corpus weight
What this shows “lactosa” 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 | lactosa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [lakˈt̪osa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “lactosa”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around lactosa (IPA [lakˈt̪osa]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,736 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Disacárido formado por la unión de una molécula de glucosa y otra de galactosa, que está presente en la leche.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for lactosa, with forms such as "alctosa", "lacctosa", and "lacotsa". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "láctea", "lácteos", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 lactosa, spelled L-A-C-T-O-S-A.
Definition
- 1Disacárido formado por la unión de una molécula de glucosa y otra de galactosa, que está presente en la leche.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alctosa
- lacctosa
- lacotsa
- lactoas
- lactossa
- lactsoa
- lacttosa
- latcosa
- lcatosa
- llactosa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lactosa - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).