silence
/si.lɑ̃s/
The verdict
“silence” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #39,992. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,992
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Silencio.
Corpus desk
Index ES-silence · silence · Spanish
silence · rank #39,992 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,992
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH significando
Nearest frequency peer: significando (-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 “silence”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- sentíamos
sentíamos
60,013 corpus weight
- sigilosamen…
sigilosamente
60,012 corpus weight
- signatarios
signatarios
60,011 corpus weight
- significando
significando
60,010 corpus weight
- silence
silence
60,009 corpus weight
- sine
sine
60,007 corpus weight
What this shows “silence” 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 | silence |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /si.lɑ̃s/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,992 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “silence”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around silence (IPA /si.lɑ̃s/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,992 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Silencio.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for silence, with forms such as "cilence", "islence", and "sielnce". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "since", "silent", "sílice", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is silence, spelled S-I-L-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Silencio.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cilence
- islence
- sielnce
- silecne
- silencce
- silenec
- silennce
- silense
- sillence
- silnece
- slience
- ssilence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of silence - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "silence", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).