niño
[ˈniɲo]
The verdict
“niño” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #690) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #690
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,151
- “N” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ser humano de corta edad, en especial el que no ha llegado a la pubertad
Corpus desk
Index ES-nino · niño · Spanish
niño · rank #690 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #690
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,151
- PHOTO-FINISH negro
Nearest frequency peer: negro (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “niño”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- llegó
llegó
99,314 corpus weight
- mensaje
mensaje
99,313 corpus weight
- negro
negro
99,312 corpus weight
- niño
niño
99,311 corpus weight
- objetivo
objetivo
99,310 corpus weight
- of
of
99,309 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “niño” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | niño |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈniɲo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “niño”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for niño is neighbouring look-alikes ("no", "NN", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈniɲo]. Frequency #690 among 1,151 “N” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for niño, with forms such as "inño", "nioñ", and "nniño". 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, "no", "NN", "non", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is niño, spelled N-I-Ñ-O.
Definition
- 1Ser humano de corta edad, en especial el que no ha llegado a la pubertad
- 2Adulto que, teniendo facultad de contraer matrimonio, no lo ha hecho
- 3Adulto de mentalidad pueril o inmadura.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inño
- nioñ
- nniño
- nñio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of niño - 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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