pateo
[paˈt̪eo]
The verdict
“pateo” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #46,713. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,713
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de patear.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pateo · pateo · Spanish
pateo · rank #46,713 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,713
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pasándose
Nearest frequency peer: pasándose (-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 “pateo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Palafox
Palafox
53,291 corpus weight
- pasadizos
pasadizos
53,290 corpus weight
- pasándose
pasándose
53,289 corpus weight
- pateo
pateo
53,288 corpus weight
- patéticas
patéticas
53,287 corpus weight
- paulatino
paulatino
53,286 corpus weight
What this shows “pateo” 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 | pateo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [paˈt̪eo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #46,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “pateo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around pateo (IPA [paˈt̪eo]), averb. Corpus frequency is #46,713 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de patear.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for pateo, with forms such as "apteo", "paeto", and "patoe". 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, "peo", "puto", "pato", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is pateo, spelled P-A-T-E-O.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de patear.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apteo
- paeto
- patoe
- patteo
- ppateo
- ptaeo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pateo - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "pateo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (6 here; floor ≥5).