puntero
[pũn̪ˈt̪eɾo]
The verdict
“puntero” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #19,226. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,226
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caballo de carrera al que le gusta correr en la primera posición desde la largada.
Corpus desk
Index ES-puntero · puntero · Spanish
puntero · rank #19,226 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,226
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pudiesen
Nearest frequency peer: pudiesen (-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 “puntero”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- psicológicas
psicológicas
80,779 corpus weight
- psicóloga
psicóloga
80,778 corpus weight
- pudiesen
pudiesen
80,776 corpus weight
- puntero
puntero
80,775 corpus weight
- quisimos
quisimos
80,774 corpus weight
- rambla
rambla
80,772 corpus weight
What this shows “puntero” 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 | puntero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pũn̪ˈt̪eɾo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,226 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “puntero”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around puntero (IPA [pũn̪ˈt̪eɾo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,226 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for puntero, with forms such as "pnutero", "ppuntero", and "punetro". 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, "punto", "puntito", "punteros", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 puntero, spelled P-U-N-T-E-R-O.
Definition
- 1Caballo de carrera al que le gusta correr en la primera posición desde la largada.
- 2Vendedor minorista de drogas ilegales.
- 3Caudillo de un local barrial de un partido político.
- 4Reemplazo del capataz en un grupo de tareas.
- 5El primero en un grupo que se desplaza.
- 6Jugador que actúa preferentemente en la parte delantera lateral del campo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pnutero
- ppuntero
- punetro
- punntero
- punteor
- punterro
- puntreo
- punttero
- putnero
- upntero
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of puntero - 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 "puntero", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).