morcilla
[moɾˈsiʝa]
The verdict
“morcilla” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #34,686. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,686
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Embutido de sangre cocida y aderezada de diversas maneras
Corpus desk
Index ES-morcilla · morcilla · Spanish
morcilla · rank #34,686 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #34,686
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH morboso
Nearest frequency peer: morboso (-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 “morcilla”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- molestarse
molestarse
65,318 corpus weight
- monstruosa
monstruosa
65,317 corpus weight
- morboso
morboso
65,316 corpus weight
- morcilla
morcilla
65,315 corpus weight
- murmullo
murmullo
65,312 corpus weight
- musculatura
musculatura
65,311 corpus weight
What this shows “morcilla” 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 | morcilla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [moɾˈsiʝa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “morcilla”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around morcilla (IPA [moɾˈsiʝa]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,686 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for morcilla, with forms such as "mmorcilla", "mocrilla", and "morccilla". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Morillo", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is morcilla, spelled M-O-R-C-I-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Embutido de sangre cocida y aderezada de diversas maneras
- 2Grupo de palabras o frases que un actor improvisa y añade en su papel en el momento de la representación.
- 3Comida intoxicada que se usaba para matar perros callejeros.
- 4Pene.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how morcilla appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pues, buscando de cenar, llegaron una morcilla, y huevos, y queso, y naranjas, y rávanos y vino.
Pues morcilla se llama, amigo Carrascal, a lo que meten los actores por su cuenta en sus recitados, a lo que añaden a la obra del autor dramático.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmorcilla
- mocrilla
- morccilla
- morcila
- morcilal
- morclila
- moriclla
- morrcilla
- morsilla
- mrocilla
- omrcilla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of morcilla - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).