porque
[ˈpoɾke]
The verdict
“porque” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #53. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #53
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Introduce una oración que explica la causa o el motivo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-porque · porque · Spanish
porque · rank #53 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #53
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH tiene
Nearest frequency peer: tiene (-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 “porque”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- todos
todos
99,952 corpus weight
- eso
eso
99,951 corpus weight
- tiene
tiene
99,950 corpus weight
- porque
porque
99,948 corpus weight
- así
así
99,946 corpus weight
- años
años
99,945 corpus weight
What this shows “porque” 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 | porque |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | [ˈpoɾke] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “porque”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around porque (IPA [ˈpoɾke]), aconjunction. Corpus frequency is #53 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for porque, with forms such as "oprque", "poqrue", and "porqeu". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "porte", "psique", "pulque", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is porque, spelled P-O-R-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Introduce una oración que explica la causa o el motivo.
- 2Introduce una oración que da el propósito o finalidad de lo dicho anteriormente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how porque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En entrando en los lugares do habían de presentar la bula, primero presentaba a los clérigos o curas algunas cosillas, no tampoco de mucho valor ni substancia: una lechuga murciana; si era por el tiempo, un par de limas o naranjas, un melocotón, un par de duraznos …. Así procuraba tenerlos propicios porque favoreciesen su negocio y llamasen sus feligreses…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oprque
- poqrue
- porqeu
- porqque
- porrque
- poruqe
- pporque
- proque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of porque - 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 "porque", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).