sima
[ˈsima]
The verdict
“sima” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #25,451) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,451
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cavidad muy profunda que nace en la superficie terrestre.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sima · sima · Spanish
sima · rank #25,451 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,451
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH shorts
Nearest frequency peer: shorts (-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 “sima”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- secreción
secreción
74,553 corpus weight
- sharp
sharp
74,552 corpus weight
- shorts
shorts
74,551 corpus weight
- sima
sima
74,550 corpus weight
- simetría
simetría
74,549 corpus weight
- siniestros
siniestros
74,548 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “sima” 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 | sima |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsima] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #25,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “sima”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sima is neighbouring look-alikes ("sin", "sir", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈsima]. Frequency #25,451 among 4,169 “S” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for sima, with forms such as "isma", "simma", and "smia". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sin", "sir", "SMS", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is sima, spelled S-I-M-A.
Definition
- 1Cavidad muy profunda que nace en la superficie terrestre.
- 2Moldura redonda y hueca, mayor que el caveto.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isma
- simma
- smia
- ssima
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sima - 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 "sima", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).