palos
[ˈpalos]
The verdict
“palos” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #6,095. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,095
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de palo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-palos · palos · Spanish
palos · rank #6,095 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,095
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH ordenado
Nearest frequency peer: ordenado (-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 “palos”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- occidentales
occidentales
93,909 corpus weight
- ordenado
ordenado
93,907 corpus weight
- palos
palos
93,906 corpus weight
- pasados
pasados
93,905 corpus weight
- permitirá
permitirá
93,904 corpus weight
- pidieron
pidieron
93,903 corpus weight
What this shows “palos” 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 | palos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpalos] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “palos”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around palos (IPA [ˈpalos]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,095 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del plural de palo.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for palos, with forms such as "aplos", "pallos", and "paloss". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pas", "pao", "paso", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is palos, spelled P-A-L-O-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de palo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aplos
- pallos
- paloss
- palso
- paols
- plaos
- ppalos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of palos - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).