rugby
[ˈraɣ̞bi]
The verdict
“rugby” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #11,857. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,857
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deporte de dos equipos, donde los jugadores pueden tomar con sus manos o patear un balón ovalado. El balón no puede pasarse hacia adelante, y los puntos se marcan haciendo tocar el balón después de...
Corpus desk
Index ES-rugby · rugby · Spanish
rugby · rank #11,857 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,857
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH ro
Nearest frequency peer: ro (-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 “rugby”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- revisado
revisado
88,146 corpus weight
- ro
ro
88,145 corpus weight
- rugby
rugby
88,144 corpus weight
- Ruth
Ruth
88,143 corpus weight
- seguiría
seguiría
88,142 corpus weight
- sic
sic
88,140 corpus weight
What this shows “rugby” 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 | rugby |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈraɣ̞bi] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “rugby”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around rugby (IPA [ˈraɣ̞bi]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,857 among 4,151 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Deporte de dos equipos, donde los jugadores pueden tomar con sus manos o patear un balón ovalado. El balón no puede pasarse hacia adelante, y los puntos se marcan haciendo tocar el balón después de...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for rugby, with forms such as "rguby", "rrugby", and "rubgy". 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 also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Ruy", "ruge", "rumbo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is rugby, spelled R-U-G-B-Y.
Definition
- 1Deporte de dos equipos, donde los jugadores pueden tomar con sus manos o patear un balón ovalado. El balón no puede pasarse hacia adelante, y los puntos se marcan haciendo tocar el balón después de la línea final del área contraria, o bien pateando la pelota para que pase por los dos palos y por sobre un travesaño dispuesto en forma de H. Dos de estos están ubicados en el centro de cada línea final, del campo de juego.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rguby
- rrugby
- rubgy
- rugbby
- rugbyy
- ruggby
- rugvy
- rugyb
- urgby
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rugby - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).