Pelayo
[peˈlaʝo]
The verdict
“Pelayo” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #19,521. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,521
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apellido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pelayo · Pelayo · Spanish
Pelayo · rank #19,521 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,521
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH patronales
Nearest frequency peer: patronales (-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 “Pelayo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- partición
partición
80,483 corpus weight
- patronales
patronales
80,481 corpus weight
- Pelayo
Pelayo
80,480 corpus weight
- peninsular
peninsular
80,479 corpus weight
- periódicas
periódicas
80,478 corpus weight
- perras
perras
80,477 corpus weight
What this shows “Pelayo” 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 | Pelayo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [peˈlaʝo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Pelayo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Pelayo (IPA [peˈlaʝo]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,521 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Apellido.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Pelayo, with forms such as "eplayo", "pealyo", and "pelaoy". 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, "pelo", "play", "plazo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is Pelayo, spelled P-E-L-A-Y-O.
Definition
- 1Apellido.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eplayo
- pealyo
- pelaoy
- pelayyo
- pellayo
- pelyao
- pleayo
- ppelayo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Pelayo - 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 "Pelayo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).