peluca
[peˈluka]
The verdict
“peluca” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #19,830. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,830
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prenda que simula el cabello natural, la que puede estar confeccionada con pelo sintético o bien natural.
Corpus desk
Index ES-peluca · peluca · Spanish
peluca · rank #19,830 · 8 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,830
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pasito
Nearest frequency peer: pasito (-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 “peluca”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- pacíficos
pacíficos
80,174 corpus weight
- particulari…
particularidades
80,173 corpus weight
- pasito
pasito
80,172 corpus weight
- peluca
peluca
80,171 corpus weight
- perdiera
perdiera
80,169 corpus weight
- periférico
periférico
80,168 corpus weight
What this shows “peluca” 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 | peluca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [peˈluka] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “peluca”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around peluca (IPA [peˈluka]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,830 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for peluca, with forms such as "epluca", "pelcua", and "pelluca". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "pesca", "placa", "pluma", 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 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 peluca, spelled P-E-L-U-C-A.
Definition
- 1Prenda que simula el cabello natural, la que puede estar confeccionada con pelo sintético o bien natural.
- 2Persona que lleva o usa peluca₁.
- 3Reprensión severa, generalmente dada a un inferior.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epluca
- pelcua
- pelluca
- peluac
- pelucca
- peulca
- pleuca
- ppeluca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of peluca - 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 "peluca", 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).