shit
/ʃɪt/
The verdict
“shit” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #24,655. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,655
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mierda
Corpus desk
Index ES-shit · shit · Spanish
shit · rank #24,655 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,655
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH shield
Nearest frequency peer: shield (-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 “shit”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- separando
separando
75,349 corpus weight
- shield
shield
75,347 corpus weight
- shit
shit
75,346 corpus weight
- significaci…
significación
75,345 corpus weight
- skin
skin
75,344 corpus weight
- sobrenatura…
sobrenaturales
75,343 corpus weight
What this shows “shit” 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 | shit |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʃɪt/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “shit”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around shit (IPA /ʃɪt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,655 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mierda".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for shit, with forms such as "hsit", "shhit", and "shitt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sí", "st", "sin", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 shit, spelled S-H-I-T.
Definition
- 1Mierda
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsit
- shhit
- shitt
- shti
- siht
- sshit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shit - 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
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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).