selva
[ˈselβ̞a]
The verdict
“selva” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #4,462. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,462
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bosque espeso, especialmente el tropical.
Corpus desk
Index ES-selva · selva · Spanish
selva · rank #4,462 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,462
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sacado
Nearest frequency peer: sacado (-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 “selva”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- rusos
rusos
95,543 corpus weight
- sacado
sacado
95,540 corpus weight
- selva
selva
95,539 corpus weight
- Silva
Silva
95,538 corpus weight
- socialismo
socialismo
95,537 corpus weight
- subió
subió
95,536 corpus weight
What this shows “selva” 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 | selva |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈselβ̞a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “selva”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around selva (IPA [ˈselβ̞a]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,462 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for selva, with forms such as "celva", "eslva", and "selav". 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, "Sola", "sepa", "sera", 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 selva, spelled S-E-L-V-A.
Definition
- 1Bosque espeso, especialmente el tropical.
- 2Por extensión, confusión o desorden resultante de la abundancia de alguna cosa.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how selva appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Y partiendo de Athenas entraron en la mar, a dó ovieron buen viage y arribaron en tierra do Tereo con Filomena se apartó de la gente suya a una spantable y inhabitable selva de fieras bestias salvajes donde, ciego y gravemente apremiado del amor, forzó a su cuñada, corrunpiendo su limpia virginidad.
¿Qué bosque o selva umbrosa no fue de nuestra caza fatigada?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- celva
- eslva
- selav
- selba
- sellva
- selvva
- sevla
- sleva
- sselva
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of selva - 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 "selva", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).