sic
[ˈsik]
The verdict
“sic” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,861) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,861
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Úsase en textos escritos para señalar que una transcripción o cita es textual, y que por lo tanto las imprecisiones o errores se deben al autor y no a quien transcribe
Corpus desk
Index ES-sic · sic · Spanish
sic · rank #11,861 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,861
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH Sicilia
Nearest frequency peer: Sicilia (+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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “sic”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Ruth
Ruth
88,143 corpus weight
- seguiría
seguiría
88,142 corpus weight
- sic
sic
88,140 corpus weight
- Sicilia
Sicilia
88,139 corpus weight
- siniestro
siniestro
88,138 corpus weight
- sobrevivió
sobrevivió
88,137 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “sic” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | sic |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ˈsik] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “sic”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sic is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "so", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced [ˈsik]. Frequency #11,861 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Úsase en textos escritos para señalar que una transcripción o cita es textual, y que por lo tanto las imprecisiones o errores se deben al autor y no a quien transcribe".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sic, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "so", "st", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is sic, spelled S-I-C.
Definition
- 1Úsase en textos escritos para señalar que una transcripción o cita es textual, y que por lo tanto las imprecisiones o errores se deben al autor y no a quien transcribe
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).