oscurece
[oskuˈɾese]
The verdict
“oscurece” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #36,721. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,721
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de oscurecer.
Corpus desk
Index ES-oscurece · oscurece · Spanish
oscurece · rank #36,721 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #36,721
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH oscilación
Nearest frequency peer: oscilación (-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 “oscurece”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- opereta
opereta
63,283 corpus weight
- organizativ…
organizativos
63,282 corpus weight
- oscilación
oscilación
63,281 corpus weight
- oscurece
oscurece
63,280 corpus weight
- Ottawa
Ottawa
63,279 corpus weight
- outfit
outfit
63,278 corpus weight
What this shows “oscurece” 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 | oscurece |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [oskuˈɾese] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #36,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “oscurece”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around oscurece (IPA [oskuˈɾese]), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,721 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 oscurece, with forms such as "ocsurece", "osccurece", and "oscruece". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "oscurecer", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is oscurece, spelled O-S-C-U-R-E-C-E.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de oscurecer.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de oscurecer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ocsurece
- osccurece
- oscruece
- oscuerce
- oscurcee
- oscurecce
- oscureec
- oscurese
- oscurrece
- osscurece
- osucrece
- socurece
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of oscurece - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).