raíces
[raˈises]
The verdict
“raíces” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #3,653. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,653
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Origen de una persona, tanto familiar, como en cuanto al lugar de donde procede.
Corpus desk
Index ES-raices · raíces · Spanish
raíces · rank #3,653 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,653
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Puebla
Nearest frequency peer: Puebla (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “raíces”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- produjo
produjo
96,351 corpus weight
- profesión
profesión
96,350 corpus weight
- Puebla
Puebla
96,349 corpus weight
- raíces
raíces
96,348 corpus weight
- rechazo
rechazo
96,347 corpus weight
- refiero
refiero
96,346 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “raíces” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | raíces |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [raˈises] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “raíces” en la frecuencia del español
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around raíces (IPA [raˈises]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,653 among 4,151 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Origen de una persona, tanto familiar, como en cuanto al lugar de donde procede.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for raíces, with forms such as "aríces", "racíes", and "raícces". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "ríes", "ricos", "ricas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 raíces, spelled R-A-Í-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Origen de una persona, tanto familiar, como en cuanto al lugar de donde procede.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aríces
- racíes
- raícces
- raícess
- raícse
- raíecs
- raíses
- rraíces
- ríaces
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of raíces - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "raíces", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "raíces". Here's where to go from here.
- "raíces" maps to 6 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "ríes". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #3,653 among Spanish headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more Spanish words in the "R" letter cohort. R–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.