presto
[ˈpɾest̪o]
The verdict
“presto” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #14,208. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,208
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pronto, diligente, ligero en la ejecución de una cosa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-presto · presto · Spanish
presto · rank #14,208 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,208
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH profundidades
Nearest frequency peer: profundidades (+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 “presto”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- presentadora
presentadora
85,796 corpus weight
- prestando
prestando
85,795 corpus weight
- presto
presto
85,793 corpus weight
- profundidad…
profundidades
85,792 corpus weight
- proteja
proteja
85,791 corpus weight
- prójimo
prójimo
85,790 corpus weight
What this shows “presto” 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 | presto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈpɾest̪o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,208 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “presto”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around presto (IPA [ˈpɾest̪o]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,208 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for presto, with forms such as "persto", "ppresto", and "presot". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "preto", "puesto", "pronto", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is presto, spelled P-R-E-S-T-O.
Definition
- 1Pronto, diligente, ligero en la ejecución de una cosa.
- 2Preparado para realizar algo, o para utilizarse algo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how presto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
había muchas sogas y otras cosas que de esparto se hacen, y parte de ellas dieron a mi amo en la cabeza; el cual, alzando la mano, toco en ellas, y viendo lo que era díjome: —Anda presto, muchacho; salgamos de entre tan mal manjar, que ahoga sin comerlo.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- persto
- ppresto
- presot
- pressto
- prestto
- pretso
- prresto
- prseto
- rpesto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of presto - 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 "presto", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).