positivo
[posiˈt̪iβ̞o]
The verdict
“positivo” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #2,416. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,416
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que no da lugar a dudas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-positivo · positivo · Spanish
positivo · rank #2,416 · 13 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,416
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH poniendo
Nearest frequency peer: poniendo (-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 “positivo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- pintura
pintura
97,588 corpus weight
- pista
pista
97,587 corpus weight
- poniendo
poniendo
97,586 corpus weight
- positivo
positivo
97,585 corpus weight
- promoción
promoción
97,584 corpus weight
- reciente
reciente
97,582 corpus weight
What this shows “positivo” 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 | positivo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [posiˈt̪iβ̞o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “positivo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around positivo (IPA [posiˈt̪iβ̞o]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,416 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for positivo, with forms such as "opsitivo", "pocitivo", and "poistivo". 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, "positivos", "político", "positiva", 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is positivo, spelled P-O-S-I-T-I-V-O.
Definition
- 1Que no da lugar a dudas.
- 2Se dice de algo que existe, mejora o aumenta, en oposición a negativo, que se aplica a lo que falta.
- 3Que es de utilidad o sirve para mejorar o para lograr algo.
- 4Optimista, que ve el lado útil o afirmativo de las cosas.
- 5Se dice de lo afirmativo, contrapuesto a lo negativo.
- 6Se dice de cargas o características opuestas al negativo (como el opuesto la carga negativa del electrón).
- 7Se aplica al número o cifra que tiene un valor mayor de cero, o que está precedido por el signo (+).
- 8Se dice de una copia fotográfica en que las partes claras y oscuras aparecen como se ven en la realidad.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opsitivo
- pocitivo
- poistivo
- posiitvo
- positibo
- positiov
- positivvo
- posittivo
- positvio
- possitivo
- postiivo
- ppositivo
- psoitivo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of positivo - 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 "positivo", 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).