Ponce
[ˈpõnse]
The verdict
“Ponce” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #9,874. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,874
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ciudad de Puerto Rico. Primer Municipio Autónomo. Segundo Municipio por área y cuarto por población. Conocido también como: La Ciudad Señorial, La Perla del Sur, La Ciudad de las Quenepas, La Cuna ...
Corpus desk
Index ES-ponce · Ponce · Spanish
Ponce · rank #9,874 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,874
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pertenecía
Nearest frequency peer: pertenecía (-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 “Ponce”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- perdemos
perdemos
90,130 corpus weight
- permitiría
permitiría
90,129 corpus weight
- pertenecía
pertenecía
90,128 corpus weight
- Ponce
Ponce
90,127 corpus weight
- poética
poética
90,126 corpus weight
- precaución
precaución
90,125 corpus weight
What this shows “Ponce” 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 | Ponce |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈpõnse] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,874 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Ponce”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Ponce (IPA [ˈpõnse]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,874 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ponce, with forms such as "opnce", "pnoce", and "pocne". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pone", "pose", "pony", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is Ponce, spelled P-O-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Ciudad de Puerto Rico. Primer Municipio Autónomo. Segundo Municipio por área y cuarto por población. Conocido también como: La Ciudad Señorial, La Perla del Sur, La Ciudad de las Quenepas, La Cuna de los Leones.
- 2Apellido de origen andaluz.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opnce
- pnoce
- pocne
- poncce
- ponec
- ponnce
- pponce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ponce - 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 "Ponce", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).