quienes
[ˈkjenes]
The verdict
“quienes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #472. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #472
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 364
- “Q” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de quien.
Corpus desk
Index ES-quienes · quienes · Spanish
quienes · rank #472 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #472
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 364
- PHOTO-FINISH población
Nearest frequency peer: población (-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 “quienes”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- luz
luz
99,532 corpus weight
- población
población
99,530 corpus weight
- quienes
quienes
99,529 corpus weight
- relación
relación
99,528 corpus weight
- sabes
sabes
99,527 corpus weight
- suerte
suerte
99,526 corpus weight
What this shows “quienes” 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 | quienes |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [ˈkjenes] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “quienes”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around quienes (IPA [ˈkjenes]), apronoun. Corpus frequency is #472 among 364 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del plural de quien.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for quienes, with forms such as "qiuenes", "qquienes", and "queines". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "quiere", "quieres", "quieren", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 quienes, spelled Q-U-I-E-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de quien.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qiuenes
- qquienes
- queines
- quieens
- quieness
- quiennes
- quiense
- quinees
- uqienes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quienes - 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 "quienes", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).