pulga
[ˈpulɣ̞a]
The verdict
“pulga” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #31,940. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,940
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pequeño insecto del orden Siphonaptera. Son parásitos externos que viven de la sangre. Sus patas posteriores contienen fibras de una proteína elástica que les permiten dar saltos enormes en relació...
Corpus desk
Index ES-pulga · pulga · Spanish
pulga · rank #31,940 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,940
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH psíquicos
Nearest frequency peer: psíquicos (-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 “pulga”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- proporciona…
proporcionaba
68,064 corpus weight
- prov
prov
68,063 corpus weight
- psíquicos
psíquicos
68,062 corpus weight
- pulga
pulga
68,061 corpus weight
- pulsa
pulsa
68,060 corpus weight
- puzzle
puzzle
68,059 corpus weight
What this shows “pulga” 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 | pulga |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpulɣ̞a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #31,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “pulga”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around pulga (IPA [ˈpulɣ̞a]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,940 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pequeño insecto del orden Siphonaptera. Son parásitos externos que viven de la sangre. Sus patas posteriores contienen fibras de una proteína elástica que les permiten dar saltos enormes en relació...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for pulga, with forms such as "pluga", "ppulga", and "pugla". 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, "puta", "pura", "puma", 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 pulga, spelled P-U-L-G-A.
Definition
- 1Pequeño insecto del orden Siphonaptera. Son parásitos externos que viven de la sangre. Sus patas posteriores contienen fibras de una proteína elástica que les permiten dar saltos enormes en relación a su tamaño.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pluga
- ppulga
- pugla
- pulag
- pulgga
- pullga
- uplga
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pulga - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).