percibir
[peɾsiˈβ̞iɾ]
The verdict
“percibir” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #11,467. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,467
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Recibir una cosa y entregarse de ella.
Corpus desk
Index ES-percibir · percibir · Spanish
percibir · rank #11,467 · 14 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,467
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH parecería
Nearest frequency peer: parecería (-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 “percibir”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- pala
pala
88,537 corpus weight
- paliza
paliza
88,536 corpus weight
- parecería
parecería
88,535 corpus weight
- percibir
percibir
88,534 corpus weight
- perderse
perderse
88,533 corpus weight
- persa
persa
88,532 corpus weight
What this shows “percibir” 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 | percibir |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [peɾsiˈβ̞iɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “percibir”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around percibir (IPA [peɾsiˈβ̞iɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,467 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for percibir, with forms such as "eprcibir", "pecribir", and "percbiir". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "percibo", "permitir", "percibe", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is percibir, spelled P-E-R-C-I-B-I-R.
Definition
- 1Recibir una cosa y entregarse de ella.
- 2Recibir por uno de los sentidos las especies o impresiones del objeto.
- 3Comprender o conocer una cosa.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how percibir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«Al lado de este nomadismo del agricultor, está el nomadismo del terrateniente que no ama sus campos, de los que solo desea percibir las rentas para gastarlas en fastuosos lujos».
«Esta sala es húmeda. Azorín cree percibir aún la sensación de humedad. En el sofá está sentada una señora que se abanica lentamente […]».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprcibir
- pecribir
- percbiir
- perccibir
- percibbir
- percibirr
- percibri
- perciibr
- percivir
- pericbir
- perrcibir
- persibir
- ppercibir
- precibir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of percibir - 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 "percibir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).