olfato
[olˈfat̪o]
The verdict
“olfato” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #18,622. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,622
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sentido que percibe el olor.
Corpus desk
Index ES-olfato · olfato · Spanish
olfato · rank #18,622 · 8 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,622
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH Olimpo
Nearest frequency peer: Olimpo (+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 “olfato”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- odisea
odisea
81,381 corpus weight
- olfato
olfato
81,379 corpus weight
- Olimpo
Olimpo
81,378 corpus weight
- operadora
operadora
81,377 corpus weight
- ordenados
ordenados
81,376 corpus weight
- ordinarios
ordinarios
81,375 corpus weight
What this shows “olfato” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | olfato |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [olˈfat̪o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,622 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “olfato”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around olfato (IPA [olˈfat̪o]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,622 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for olfato, with forms such as "lofato", "oflato", and "olafto". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 olfato, spelled O-L-F-A-T-O.
Definition
- 1Sentido que percibe el olor.
- 2Habilidad para entender o detectar lo que no es evidente o que esta oculto.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lofato
- oflato
- olafto
- olfaot
- olfatto
- olffato
- olftao
- ollfato
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of olfato - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).