ortografía
[oɾt̪oɣ̞ɾaˈfia]
The verdict
“ortografía” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #8,847. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,847
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conjunto de reglas convencionales que rigen el sistema de escritura normalmente establecido para una lengua.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ortografia · ortografía · Spanish
ortografía · rank #8,847 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #8,847
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH Núñez
Nearest frequency peer: Núñez (-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 “ortografía”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- nativo
nativo
91,157 corpus weight
- Núñez
Núñez
91,155 corpus weight
- ortografía
ortografía
91,154 corpus weight
- periodos
periodos
91,153 corpus weight
- persigue
persigue
91,152 corpus weight
- pierdes
pierdes
91,151 corpus weight
What this shows “ortografía” 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 | ortografía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [oɾt̪oɣ̞ɾaˈfia] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #8,847 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “ortografía”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around ortografía (IPA [oɾt̪oɣ̞ɾaˈfia]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,847 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for ortografía, with forms such as "orotgrafía", "orrtografía", and "ortgorafía". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "ortográfico", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 ortografía, spelled O-R-T-O-G-R-A-F-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Conjunto de reglas convencionales que rigen el sistema de escritura normalmente establecido para una lengua.
- 2Aplicación de estas reglas en la escritura.
- 3Delineación del alzado de un edificio u otro objeto.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ortografía appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Según muchos medios de comunicación, la ortografía indica profesionalidad; así, por ejemplo, si alguien se llegase a topar (en un sitio web, documentos, libros, etc.) con un error ortográfico, se sentiría inseguro o insatisfecho.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orotgrafía
- orrtografía
- ortgorafía
- ortogarfía
- ortoggrafía
- ortografaí
- ortograffía
- ortograífa
- ortogrfaía
- ortogrrafía
- ortorgafía
- orttografía
- otrografía
- rotografía
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ortografía - 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 "ortografía", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).