módem
[ˈmoð̞ẽm]
The verdict
“módem” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #26,541. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,541
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dispositivo que permite la comunicación entre dos ordenadores usando una línea telefónica. Al ser el ordenador un sistema digital y las líneas telefónicas convencionales analógicas, en primer lugar...
Corpus desk
Index ES-modem · módem · Spanish
módem · rank #26,541 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,541
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH nan
Nearest frequency peer: nan (+2 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 “módem”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Mississippi
Mississippi
73,465 corpus weight
- moderadas
moderadas
73,464 corpus weight
- moi
moi
73,463 corpus weight
- módem
módem
73,460 corpus weight
- nan
nan
73,458 corpus weight
- Nogales
Nogales
73,456 corpus weight
What this shows “módem” 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 | módem |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmoð̞ẽm] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “módem”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around módem (IPA [ˈmoð̞ẽm]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,541 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dispositivo que permite la comunicación entre dos ordenadores usando una línea telefónica. Al ser el ordenador un sistema digital y las líneas telefónicas convencionales analógicas, en primer lugar...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for módem, with forms such as "mdóem", "mmódem", and "móddem". 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, "mom", "modo", "more", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is módem, spelled M-Ó-D-E-M.
Definition
- 1Dispositivo que permite la comunicación entre dos ordenadores usando una línea telefónica. Al ser el ordenador un sistema digital y las líneas telefónicas convencionales analógicas, en primer lugar el módem del ordenador que envía la información ha de convertir en analógicas las señales digitales (modulación), para que sean transmitidas por la línea telefónica hasta el ordenador de destino, cuyo módem deberá reconvertirlas en digitales (demodulación).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mdóem
- mmódem
- móddem
- módemm
- módme
- móedm
- ómdem
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of módem - 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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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).