petróleo
[peˈt̪ɾoleo]
The verdict
“petróleo” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #2,626. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,626
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Líquido inflamable, formado por una mezcla de diversos hidrocarburos producidos por la pirólisis de materia orgánica fosilizada a elevada presión o temperatura.
Corpus desk
Index ES-petroleo · petróleo · Spanish
petróleo · rank #2,626 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,626
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pensado
Nearest frequency peer: pensado (-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 “petróleo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- oficinas
oficinas
97,378 corpus weight
- papeles
papeles
97,377 corpus weight
- pensado
pensado
97,376 corpus weight
- petróleo
petróleo
97,375 corpus weight
- posteriorme…
posteriormente
97,373 corpus weight
- potencial
potencial
97,372 corpus weight
What this shows “petróleo” 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 | petróleo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [peˈt̪ɾoleo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,626 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “petróleo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around petróleo (IPA [peˈt̪ɾoleo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,626 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for petróleo, with forms such as "eptróleo", "pertóleo", and "petrlóeo". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "petróleos", "petroleros", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 petróleo, spelled P-E-T-R-Ó-L-E-O.
Definition
- 1Líquido inflamable, formado por una mezcla de diversos hidrocarburos producidos por la pirólisis de materia orgánica fosilizada a elevada presión o temperatura.
- 2Por extensión, forma refinada del petróleo₁ empleada como combustible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how petróleo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Algunos, creyendo ser impossible mantener siempre la luz sin subministración de nueva materia, pensaron en sugerírsela a beneficio preciso de la naturaleza, colocando la lámpara en alguna parte subterránea donde haya manantial de petróleo, o otro betún líquido.
En cambio, el automóvil de petróleo no necesita nada de esto. Con un depósito de petróleo tiene bastante. El mismo movimiento del émbolo en el cilindro atrae el aire exterior, que al pasar lamiendo la superficie del petróleo, se carga de vapores de este líquido y penetra en el cilindro, convertido en mezcla explosiva.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eptróleo
- pertóleo
- petrlóeo
- petrróleo
- petróelo
- petrólleo
- petróloe
- pettróleo
- petórleo
- ppetróleo
- pteróleo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of petróleo - 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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