provocó
[pɾoβ̞oˈko]
The verdict
“provocó” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #5,032. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,032
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de provocar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-provoco · provocó · Spanish
provocó · rank #5,032 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,032
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH preparando
Nearest frequency peer: preparando (-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 “provocó”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- po
po
94,972 corpus weight
- preocupado
preocupado
94,971 corpus weight
- preparando
preparando
94,970 corpus weight
- provocó
provocó
94,969 corpus weight
- publicados
publicados
94,968 corpus weight
- queridos
queridos
94,967 corpus weight
What this shows “provocó” 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 | provocó |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pɾoβ̞oˈko] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “provocó”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around provocó (IPA [pɾoβ̞oˈko]), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,032 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de provocar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for provocó, with forms such as "porvocó", "pprovocó", and "probocó". 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, "provoca", "prólogo", "provino", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is provocó, spelled P-R-O-V-O-C-Ó.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de provocar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porvocó
- pprovocó
- probocó
- proovcó
- provcoó
- provoccó
- provoóc
- provvocó
- prrovocó
- prvoocó
- rpovocó
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of provocó - 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 "provocó", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).