light
[ˈlajt̪]
The verdict
“light” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #8,982. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,982
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alimento que, a diferencia de su versión tradicional, está reducido en calorías, grasas, sodio o alguna sustancia considerada perjudicial.
Corpus desk
Index ES-light · light · Spanish
light · rank #8,982 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,982
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH licitación
Nearest frequency peer: licitación (-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 “light”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- laterales
laterales
91,022 corpus weight
- lava
lava
91,021 corpus weight
- licitación
licitación
91,020 corpus weight
- light
light
91,019 corpus weight
- Lisboa
Lisboa
91,018 corpus weight
- males
males
91,016 corpus weight
What this shows “light” 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 | light |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈlajt̪] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “light”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around light (IPA [ˈlajt̪]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,982 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for light, with forms such as "ilght", "lgiht", and "ligght". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "lit", "list", "ligue", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is light, spelled L-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1Alimento que, a diferencia de su versión tradicional, está reducido en calorías, grasas, sodio o alguna sustancia considerada perjudicial.
- 2Que es moderado en su ideología.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how light appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Esto muestra por qué el socialismo, en ninguna de sus vertientes, puede funcionar. En el caso más extremo, porque no hay propiedad privada y entonces no se puede hacer los intercambios que requiere el mercado. Y en segundo lugar, en las versiones más light que permiten la existencia del sector privado, la intromisión del Estado mete ruido en el sistema de…
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilght
- lgiht
- ligght
- lighht
- lightt
- ligth
- lihgt
- llight
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of light - 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 "light", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).