pescar
[pesˈkaɾ]
The verdict
“pescar” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #13,537. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,537
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Atrapar peces del agua o, al menos, intentar hacerlo con finalidades alimenticias o deportivas
Corpus desk
Index ES-pescar · pescar · Spanish
pescar · rank #13,537 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,537
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH perseguidos
Nearest frequency peer: perseguidos (-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 “pescar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- pastilla
pastilla
86,468 corpus weight
- pendejadas
pendejadas
86,467 corpus weight
- perseguidos
perseguidos
86,465 corpus weight
- pescar
pescar
86,464 corpus weight
- pin
pin
86,463 corpus weight
- Pizarro
Pizarro
86,462 corpus weight
What this shows “pescar” 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 | pescar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pesˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “pescar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pescar (IPA [pesˈkaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,537 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pescar, with forms such as "epscar", "pecsar", and "pesacr". 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, "pisar", "picar", "posar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is pescar, spelled P-E-S-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1Atrapar peces del agua o, al menos, intentar hacerlo con finalidades alimenticias o deportivas
- 2Sorprender a alguien haciendo algo reprobable
- 3Adquirir inesperadamente una enfermedad
- 4Tomar en cuenta a alguien o a algo, prestar atención a alguien o a algo
- 5En el juego del truco, no cantar los tantos cuando se tiene muchos puntos, para esperar a ver si el rival los canta durante su primer turno para así pillarlo desprevenido y redoblar la apuesta; en donde, a su vez, se corre el riesgo de que el rival tampoco cante el envido y se pierda la oportunidad de ganar puntos en esa mano.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epscar
- pecsar
- pesacr
- pescarr
- pesccar
- pescra
- pesscar
- ppescar
- psecar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pescar - 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 "pescar", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).