quechua
[ˈket͡ʃwa]
The verdict
“quechua” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #14,214. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,214
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 364
- “Q” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Familia de lenguas del occidente de Sudamérica, habladas por alrededor de 7 millones de personas en Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina y Chile.
Corpus desk
Index ES-quechua · quechua · Spanish
quechua · rank #14,214 · 9 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,214
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 364
- PHOTO-FINISH puntaje
Nearest frequency peer: puntaje (-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 “quechua”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- prójimo
prójimo
85,790 corpus weight
- public
public
85,789 corpus weight
- puntaje
puntaje
85,788 corpus weight
- quechua
quechua
85,787 corpus weight
- querella
querella
85,786 corpus weight
- quieto
quieto
85,785 corpus weight
What this shows “quechua” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quechua |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈket͡ʃwa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “quechua”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around quechua (IPA [ˈket͡ʃwa]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,214 among 364 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for quechua, with forms such as "qeuchua", "qquechua", and "qucehua". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is quechua, spelled Q-U-E-C-H-U-A.
Definition
- 1Familia de lenguas del occidente de Sudamérica, habladas por alrededor de 7 millones de personas en Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina y Chile.
- 2En particular, cualquiera de las lenguas de la familia quechua, a menudo considerada como un solo idioma.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qeuchua
- qquechua
- qucehua
- quecchua
- quechau
- quechhua
- quecuha
- quehcua
- uqechua
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quechua - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).