puestos
[ˈpwest̪os]
The verdict
“puestos” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #1,787. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,787
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 48,357
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Forma del plural de puesto.
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 | puestos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpwest̪os] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,787 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “puestos” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around puestos (IPA [ˈpwest̪os]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,787 among 48,357 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del plural de puesto.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for puestos, with forms such as "peustos", "ppuestos", and "puesots". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "putos", "puntos", "pulsos", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is puestos, spelled P-U-E-S-T-O-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de puesto.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- peustos
- ppuestos
- puesots
- puesstos
- puestoss
- puestso
- puesttos
- puetsos
- pusetos
- upestos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of puestos - 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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Using “puestos”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-U-E-S-T-O-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈpwest̪os] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “putos” - see the side-by-side comparison. puestos vs putos
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.