placenta
[plaˈsẽn̪t̪a]
The verdict
“placenta” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #33,772. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,772
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Órgano muy vascularizado en la pared del útero que sirve para la implantanción y alimentación del feto a través del cordón umbilical que los une. Es propio de los mamíferos placentarios.
Corpus desk
Index ES-placenta · placenta · Spanish
placenta · rank #33,772 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,772
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pigmentos
Nearest frequency peer: pigmentos (-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 “placenta”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- pestes
pestes
66,232 corpus weight
- petardos
petardos
66,231 corpus weight
- pigmentos
pigmentos
66,230 corpus weight
- placenta
placenta
66,229 corpus weight
- plasmado
plasmado
66,227 corpus weight
- points
points
66,226 corpus weight
What this shows “placenta” 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 | placenta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [plaˈsẽn̪t̪a] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #33,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “placenta”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around placenta (IPA [plaˈsẽn̪t̪a]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,772 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for placenta, with forms such as "lpacenta", "palcenta", and "placcenta". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "planta", "planeta", "placentera", 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, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is placenta, spelled P-L-A-C-E-N-T-A.
Definition
- 1Órgano muy vascularizado en la pared del útero que sirve para la implantanción y alimentación del feto a través del cordón umbilical que los une. Es propio de los mamíferos placentarios.
- 2Serie de nervios del ovario donde se forman los rudimentos seminales y que se unen a ellos mediante un filamento, el funículo o cordón umbilical.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpacenta
- palcenta
- placcenta
- placenat
- placennta
- placentta
- placetna
- placneta
- plaecnta
- plasenta
- plcaenta
- pllacenta
- pplacenta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of placenta - 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 "placenta", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).