rufián
[ruˈfjãn]
The verdict
“rufián” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #32,389. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,389
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hombre que se dedica al tráfico de mujeres públicas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-rufian · rufián · Spanish
rufián · rank #32,389 · 8 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,389
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH rublos
Nearest frequency peer: rublos (-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 “rufián”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- revisados
revisados
67,615 corpus weight
- rublos
rublos
67,613 corpus weight
- rufián
rufián
67,612 corpus weight
- rule
rule
67,611 corpus weight
- sacristía
sacristía
67,610 corpus weight
- sake
sake
67,609 corpus weight
What this shows “rufián” 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 | rufián |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ruˈfjãn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “rufián”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around rufián (IPA [ruˈfjãn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,389 among 4,151 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Hombre que se dedica al tráfico de mujeres públicas.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for rufián, with forms such as "rfuián", "rrufián", and "ruffián". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "ruin", "Rusia", "Rufino", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 rufián, spelled R-U-F-I-Á-N.
Definition
- 1Hombre que se dedica al tráfico de mujeres públicas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rufián appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«—¿No te das cuenta? Don Céfaro es un rufián profesional. No ha hecho más que eso en su vida. Forjó su gran fortuna vendiéndole muchachas a los burdeles… Traía del Interior cholitas sanas, sencillas, inocentes… Las adiestraba un poco… Se distraía con ellas… y las lanzaba al mundo como diciendo ¡ahí va eso!».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rfuián
- rrufián
- ruffián
- rufiná
- rufiánn
- rufáin
- ruifán
- urfián
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rufián - 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 "rufián", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).