nazca
[ˈnaska]
The verdict
“nazca” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #18,327. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,327
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,151
- “N” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que pertenece o concierne a una cultura arqueológica del Antiguo Perú que se desarrolló en los valles del actual departamento de Ica, entre los siglos 1 y 7, que tuvo especial importancia en la for...
Corpus desk
Index ES-nazca · nazca · Spanish
nazca · rank #18,327 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,327
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,151
- PHOTO-FINISH navío
Nearest frequency peer: navío (-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 “nazca”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- naranjo
naranjo
81,677 corpus weight
- Navas
Navas
81,676 corpus weight
- navío
navío
81,675 corpus weight
- nazca
nazca
81,674 corpus weight
- obispado
obispado
81,672 corpus weight
- ocurriera
ocurriera
81,671 corpus weight
What this shows “nazca” 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 | nazca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈnaska] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “nazca”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around nazca (IPA [ˈnaska]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,327 among 1,151 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Que pertenece o concierne a una cultura arqueológica del Antiguo Perú que se desarrolló en los valles del actual departamento de Ica, entre los siglos 1 y 7, que tuvo especial importancia en la for...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for nazca, with forms such as "anzca", "nacza", and "nazac". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nazi", "nuca", "Niza", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 nazca, spelled N-A-Z-C-A.
Definition
- 1Que pertenece o concierne a una cultura arqueológica del Antiguo Perú que se desarrolló en los valles del actual departamento de Ica, entre los siglos 1 y 7, que tuvo especial importancia en la formación de la cultura huari.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anzca
- nacza
- nazac
- nazcca
- nazzca
- nnazca
- nzaca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nazca - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).