sebo
[ˈseβ̞o]
The verdict
“sebo” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #42,687. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,687
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lubricante natural de la piel de los mamíferos, compuesto de grasa y residuos epiteliales, producido por las glándulas sebáceas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sebo · sebo · Spanish
sebo · rank #42,687 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,687
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sancionadas
Nearest frequency peer: sancionadas (-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 “sebo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- salude
salude
57,317 corpus weight
- sancionadas
sancionadas
57,315 corpus weight
- sebo
sebo
57,314 corpus weight
- secando
secando
57,313 corpus weight
- secreciones
secreciones
57,312 corpus weight
- sentimental…
sentimentalismo
57,311 corpus weight
What this shows “sebo” 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 | sebo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈseβ̞o] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #42,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “sebo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around sebo (IPA [ˈseβ̞o]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,687 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for sebo, with forms such as "esbo", "sbeo", and "sebbo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "ser", "sed", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 sebo, spelled S-E-B-O.
Definition
- 1Lubricante natural de la piel de los mamíferos, compuesto de grasa y residuos epiteliales, producido por las glándulas sebáceas.
- 2Grasa sólida que se saca de los animales herbívoros, y que, derretida, sirve para hacer velas y para otros usos.
- 3Cualquier género de gordura.
- 4Borrachera.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sebo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Todo lo que podía hacer era conservar el sebo de las cabras que mataba, colocar una mecha de grasa en un platito de arcilla que cocí al sol y hacerme una lámpara.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esbo
- sbeo
- sebbo
- seob
- sevo
- ssebo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sebo - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).