pendejo
[pẽn̪ˈd̪exo]
The verdict
“pendejo” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #3,947. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,947
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parte inferior del abdomen, justo por encima de los genitales y sobre el hueso coxal, que tras la pubertad desarrolla vello.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pendejo · pendejo · Spanish
pendejo · rank #3,947 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,947
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH palma
Nearest frequency peer: palma (-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 “pendejo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Málaga
Málaga
96,057 corpus weight
- nacionalidad
nacionalidad
96,056 corpus weight
- palma
palma
96,055 corpus weight
- pendejo
pendejo
96,054 corpus weight
- poema
poema
96,053 corpus weight
- pri
pri
96,052 corpus weight
What this shows “pendejo” 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 | pendejo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pẽn̪ˈd̪exo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,947 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “pendejo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around pendejo (IPA [pẽn̪ˈd̪exo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,947 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pendejo, with forms such as "epndejo", "pednejo", and "penddejo". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "péndulo", "pendejos", "pende", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is pendejo, spelled P-E-N-D-E-J-O.
Definition
- 1Parte inferior del abdomen, justo por encima de los genitales y sobre el hueso coxal, que tras la pubertad desarrolla vello.
- 2Por extensión, cada uno de los vellos que crece en el pendejo₁, el perineo y la ingle de los humanos adultos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pendejo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
con vna poca de saliua sobre el lugar aseñalado en medio del huesso del pendejo cerca de la verga por vn dedo & cercalo con algund circulo fecho de paño encerado.
Tú has de poner aquí toda tu ciencia, y más que no puedo comportar a mi marido los sobacos, dame cualque menjurje que le ponga; y vézanos a mí y a esta prima cómo nos rapemos los pendejos, que nuestros maridos lo quieren ansí, que no quieren que parezcamos a las romanas que jamás se lo rapan, y págate a tu modo.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epndejo
- pednejo
- penddejo
- pendejjo
- pendeoj
- pendjeo
- penedjo
- penndejo
- pnedejo
- ppendejo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pendejo - 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 "pendejo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).