sense
/sɛns/
The verdict
“sense” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #27,776. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,776
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sentido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sense · sense · Spanish
sense · rank #27,776 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,776
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH semejanzas
Nearest frequency peer: semejanzas (-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 “sense”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- satírico
satírico
72,228 corpus weight
- secretarías
secretarías
72,227 corpus weight
- semejanzas
semejanzas
72,226 corpus weight
- sense
sense
72,225 corpus weight
- seáis
seáis
72,223 corpus weight
- Sinclair
Sinclair
72,222 corpus weight
What this shows “sense” 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 | sense |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɛns/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “sense”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around sense (IPA /sɛns/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,776 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for sense, with forms such as "cence", "esnse", and "senes". 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, "ses", "sets", "Sere", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 sense, spelled S-E-N-S-E.
Definition
- 1Sentido.
- 2Los sentidos colectivamente.
- 3Sensación.
- 4Opinión, juicio.
- 5Discernimiento.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sense appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil
Ephraim also is like a silly dove, without sense They call to Egypt, They go to Assyria
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cence
- esnse
- senes
- sennse
- sensse
- sesne
- snese
- ssense
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sense - 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).