piojo
[ˈpjoxo]
The verdict
“piojo” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #32,804. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,804
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (orden Phthiraptera) Cualquiera de más de 3000 especies de insectos ápteros adaptados para parasitar virtualmente todas las especies de mamíferos y aves, cuya sangre consumen, alojándose en el cabe...
Corpus desk
Index ES-piojo · piojo · Spanish
piojo · rank #32,804 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,804
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pidamos
Nearest frequency peer: pidamos (-2 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 “piojo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- perturba
perturba
67,201 corpus weight
- picadura
picadura
67,200 corpus weight
- pidamos
pidamos
67,199 corpus weight
- piojo
piojo
67,197 corpus weight
- pistolero
pistolero
67,195 corpus weight
- planeamos
planeamos
67,194 corpus weight
What this shows “piojo” 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 | piojo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpjoxo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,804 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “piojo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around piojo (IPA [ˈpjoxo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,804 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for piojo, with forms such as "ipojo", "pijoo", and "piojjo". 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, "poo", "poco", "piso", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is piojo, spelled P-I-O-J-O.
Definition
- 1(orden Phthiraptera) Cualquiera de más de 3000 especies de insectos ápteros adaptados para parasitar virtualmente todas las especies de mamíferos y aves, cuya sangre consumen, alojándose en el cabello del cuerpo y la cabeza. Su cuerpo está diseñado para este hábitat, con el primer par de patas modificado para permitir la sujeción al cabello. Son extremadamente fértiles, depositando las hembras hasta unos 200 huevos en los 30 días de su vida adulta. Tienen el cuerpo aplanado y de color oscuro o pardoamarillento. La infestación con piojos se denomina pediculosis, y provoca comezón, además de funcionar como vector para otras enfermedades —en particular el tifus— y provocar anemia en casos agudos.
- 2(Pediculus humanus) En particular, piojo₁ que afecta al ser humano
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipojo
- pijoo
- piojjo
- piooj
- poijo
- ppiojo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of piojo - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).