ogro
[ˈoɣ̞ɾo]
The verdict
“ogro” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,705) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,705
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gigante humanoide y monstruoso que, en algunas leyendas europeas medievales, se alimentaba de carne humana, especialmente de niños
Corpus desk
Index ES-ogro · ogro · Spanish
ogro · rank #34,705 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,705
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH olvidéis
Nearest frequency peer: olvidéis (+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 “ogro”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- novi
novi
65,300 corpus weight
- observadas
observadas
65,299 corpus weight
- obstaculizar
obstaculizar
65,298 corpus weight
- ogro
ogro
65,296 corpus weight
- olvidéis
olvidéis
65,295 corpus weight
- originada
originada
65,294 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ogro” 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 | ogro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈoɣ̞ɾo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #34,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ogro”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ogro is neighbouring look-alikes ("or", "oro", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈoɣ̞ɾo]. Frequency #34,705 among 1,467 “O” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for ogro, with forms such as "oggro", "ogor", and "orgo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "or", "oro", "ojo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is ogro, spelled O-G-R-O.
Definition
- 1Gigante humanoide y monstruoso que, en algunas leyendas europeas medievales, se alimentaba de carne humana, especialmente de niños
- 2Por extensión, persona irascible y huraña, insociable o de mal carácter
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oggro
- ogor
- orgo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ogro - 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 "ogro", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).