prison
/pʁi.zɔ̃/
The verdict
“prison” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #37,800. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,800
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prisión.
Corpus desk
Index ES-prison · prison · Spanish
prison · rank #37,800 · 9 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,800
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pride
Nearest frequency peer: pride (-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 “prison”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- prescrito
prescrito
62,204 corpus weight
- preserva
preserva
62,203 corpus weight
- pride
pride
62,202 corpus weight
- prison
prison
62,201 corpus weight
- probadas
probadas
62,200 corpus weight
- progresivos
progresivos
62,198 corpus weight
What this shows “prison” 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 | prison |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pʁi.zɔ̃/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “prison”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around prison (IPA /pʁi.zɔ̃/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,800 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for prison, with forms such as "pirson", "pprison", and "priosn". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "piso", "primo", "pisos", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is prison, spelled P-R-I-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Prisión.
- 2Cárcel.
- 3Celda.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pirson
- pprison
- priosn
- prisno
- prisonn
- prisson
- prrison
- prsion
- rpison
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prison - 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 "prison", 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).