sencillo
[sẽnˈsiʝo]
The verdict
“sencillo” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #1,916. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,916
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que no tiene artificio ni excesiva elaboración o sofisticación.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sencillo · sencillo · Spanish
sencillo · rank #1,916 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,916
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH responder
Nearest frequency peer: responder (-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 “sencillo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- produce
produce
98,088 corpus weight
- recibe
recibe
98,087 corpus weight
- responder
responder
98,086 corpus weight
- sencillo
sencillo
98,085 corpus weight
- Sevilla
Sevilla
98,084 corpus weight
- señal
señal
98,083 corpus weight
What this shows “sencillo” 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 | sencillo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [sẽnˈsiʝo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “sencillo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around sencillo (IPA [sẽnˈsiʝo]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,916 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sencillo, with forms such as "cencillo", "esncillo", and "secnillo". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "sencillos", "sencilla", "sencillas", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 sencillo, spelled S-E-N-C-I-L-L-O.
Definition
- 1Que no tiene artificio ni excesiva elaboración o sofisticación.
- 2Referido a telas y otras cosas, que tiene menos cuerpo o grosor que otras de su tipo.
- 3Que no tiene ostentación y adornos.
- 4Referido al estilo, que expresa el mensaje de un modo directo, ingenuo y natural.
- 5Que no es difícil, que no ofrece mayores retos al entendimiento.
- 6Referido a una persona, que no actúa con pretensión, dobles intenciones ni vanidad, sino de modo sincero, espontáneo o natural.
- 7Que no usa su astucia y por lo tanto puede ser engañado fácilmente.
- 8Se dice de la moneda pequeña de menos valor respecto de otra del mismo nombre.
- 9Referido a habitaciones de hotel y ciertos productos o servicios, que no es doble ni triple, que se ofrece para una sola persona, uso, ocasión, etc.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cencillo
- esncillo
- secnillo
- senccillo
- sencilo
- sencilol
- senclilo
- senicllo
- senncillo
- sensillo
- snecillo
- ssencillo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sencillo - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "sencillo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).