Popayán
[popaˈʝãn]
The verdict
“Popayán” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #30,190. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,190
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capital del departamento del Cauca, situada entre las cordilleras central y occidental de Los Andes colombianos, a 1.760 metros de altitud. Coordenadas decimales: 2.43°, -76.62°.
Corpus desk
Index ES-popayan · Popayán · Spanish
Popayán · rank #30,190 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,190
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH politécnico
Nearest frequency peer: politécnico (-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 “Popayán”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- pintaron
pintaron
69,814 corpus weight
- politécnico
politécnico
69,812 corpus weight
- Popayán
Popayán
69,811 corpus weight
- porros
porros
69,810 corpus weight
- portaba
portaba
69,809 corpus weight
- posando
posando
69,808 corpus weight
What this shows “Popayán” 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 | Popayán |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [popaˈʝãn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,190 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Popayán”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Popayán (IPA [popaˈʝãn]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #30,190 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Capital del departamento del Cauca, situada entre las cordilleras central y occidental de Los Andes colombianos, a 1.760 metros de altitud. Coordenadas decimales: 2.43°, -76.62°.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Popayán, with forms such as "oppayán", "poapyán", and "popayná". 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, "propagan", "papaya", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Popayán, spelled P-O-P-A-Y-Á-N.
Definition
- 1Capital del departamento del Cauca, situada entre las cordilleras central y occidental de Los Andes colombianos, a 1.760 metros de altitud. Coordenadas decimales: 2.43°, -76.62°.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oppayán
- poapyán
- popayná
- popayyán
- popayánn
- popaáyn
- poppayán
- popyaán
- ppoayán
- ppopayán
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Popayán - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).