perplejo
[peɾˈplexo]
The verdict
“perplejo” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #31,056. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,056
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dícese de una persona o ente sorprendido debido a un suceso, situación o evento inesperado o incomprensible.
Corpus desk
Index ES-perplejo · perplejo · Spanish
perplejo · rank #31,056 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #31,056
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH perdones
Nearest frequency peer: perdones (-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 “perplejo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- penguin
penguin
68,948 corpus weight
- penúltima
penúltima
68,947 corpus weight
- perdones
perdones
68,946 corpus weight
- perplejo
perplejo
68,945 corpus weight
- piropos
piropos
68,944 corpus weight
- plenario
plenario
68,943 corpus weight
What this shows “perplejo” 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 | perplejo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [peɾˈplexo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #31,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “perplejo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around perplejo (IPA [peɾˈplexo]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,056 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dícese de una persona o ente sorprendido debido a un suceso, situación o evento inesperado o incomprensible.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for perplejo, with forms such as "eprplejo", "peprlejo", and "perlpejo". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "pellejo", 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 perplejo, spelled P-E-R-P-L-E-J-O.
Definition
- 1Dícese de una persona o ente sorprendido debido a un suceso, situación o evento inesperado o incomprensible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how perplejo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avancé hasta la ventanilla, corrí despacio la cortina y, al abrir una hoja de madera, un golpe de aire frío y una oscuridad abrumadora, que resplandecía como un lucero nocturno, me dejaron perplejo».
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprplejo
- peprlejo
- perlpejo
- perpeljo
- perplejjo
- perpleoj
- perpljeo
- perpllejo
- perpplejo
- perrplejo
- pperplejo
- preplejo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of perplejo - 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 "perplejo", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).