puerco
[ˈpweɾko]
The verdict
“puerco” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #18,055. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,055
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Sus scrofa domesticus) Animal mamífero, artiodáctilo, de cuerpo robusto y piel gruesa, domesticado desde la Antigüedad para aprovechar su carne y su cuero. Es una variedad de la misma especie que ...
Corpus desk
Index ES-puerco · puerco · Spanish
puerco · rank #18,055 · 8 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,055
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH publicará
Nearest frequency peer: publicará (-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 “puerco”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- promo
promo
81,950 corpus weight
- psicópata
psicópata
81,948 corpus weight
- publicará
publicará
81,947 corpus weight
- puerco
puerco
81,946 corpus weight
- Pujol
Pujol
81,945 corpus weight
- quebrado
quebrado
81,942 corpus weight
What this shows “puerco” 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 | puerco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpweɾko] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “puerco”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around puerco (IPA [ˈpweɾko]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,055 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 puerco, with forms such as "peurco", "ppuerco", and "puecro". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "puro", "puesto", "puerta", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is puerco, spelled P-U-E-R-C-O.
Definition
- 1(Sus scrofa domesticus) Animal mamífero, artiodáctilo, de cuerpo robusto y piel gruesa, domesticado desde la Antigüedad para aprovechar su carne y su cuero. Es una variedad de la misma especie que en su forma salvaje se conoce como jabalí.
- 2Por extensión, cualquier animal del género Sus.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- peurco
- ppuerco
- puecro
- puercco
- pueroc
- puerrco
- pureco
- uperco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of puerco - 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 "puerco", 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).