obsoleto
[oβ̞soˈlet̪o]
The verdict
“obsoleto” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #23,518. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,518
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que ha dejado de estar en uso por ser reemplazado por otra cosa más moderna y ajustada al momento
Corpus desk
Index ES-obsoleto · obsoleto · Spanish
obsoleto · rank #23,518 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,518
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH obsesivo
Nearest frequency peer: obsesivo (-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 “obsoleto”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- nexos
nexos
76,487 corpus weight
- Noriega
Noriega
76,486 corpus weight
- observaba
observaba
76,485 corpus weight
- obsesivo
obsesivo
76,484 corpus weight
- obsoleto
obsoleto
76,483 corpus weight
- obtenemos
obtenemos
76,482 corpus weight
What this shows “obsoleto” 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 | obsoleto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [oβ̞soˈlet̪o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “obsoleto”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around obsoleto (IPA [oβ̞soˈlet̪o]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,518 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for obsoleto, with forms such as "bosoleto", "obbsoleto", and "obosleto". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "obsoletos", "obsoleta", "obsoletas", 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 obsoleto, spelled O-B-S-O-L-E-T-O.
Definition
- 1Que ha dejado de estar en uso por ser reemplazado por otra cosa más moderna y ajustada al momento
- 2Que se usa o se ha usado poco
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bosoleto
- obbsoleto
- obosleto
- obsloeto
- obsoelto
- obsoleot
- obsoletto
- obsolleto
- obsolteo
- obssoleto
- osboleto
- ovsoleto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of obsoleto - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "obsoleto", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).