plástico
[ˈplast̪iko]
The verdict
“plástico” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #4,539. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,539
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Calquiera de los materiales sintéticos u orgánicos que pueden moldearse cuando son suaves para después ser endurecidos. Empleandos en la construcción, decoración y en la manufactura de una gran div...
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Index ES-plastico · plástico · Spanish
plástico · rank #4,539 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,539
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH platos
Nearest frequency peer: platos (-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 “plástico”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- perdí
perdí
95,465 corpus weight
- pizza
pizza
95,464 corpus weight
- platos
platos
95,463 corpus weight
- plástico
plástico
95,462 corpus weight
- portugués
portugués
95,461 corpus weight
- protocolo
protocolo
95,459 corpus weight
What this shows “plástico” 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 | plástico |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈplast̪iko] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “plástico”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around plástico (IPA [ˈplast̪iko]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,539 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for plástico, with forms such as "lpástico", "pllástico", and "plsático". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "platino", "platica", "práctico", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is plástico, spelled P-L-Á-S-T-I-C-O.
Definition
- 1Calquiera de los materiales sintéticos u orgánicos que pueden moldearse cuando son suaves para después ser endurecidos. Empleandos en la construcción, decoración y en la manufactura de una gran diversidad de artículos.
- 2Una tarjeta de crédito.
- 3Objeto o grupo de objetos hechos de plástico(1).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpástico
- pllástico
- plsático
- plásitco
- plásstico
- plástcio
- plásticco
- plástioc
- plásttico
- plátsico
- pplástico
- pálstico
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plástico - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "plástico", 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).