skin

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for skin is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈskĩn]. Corpus data places it at rank #24,657 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Miembro de una subcultura nacida en el Reino Unido en los años sesenta caracterizado principalmente por llevar la cabeza rapada y por su culto al coraje y a la violencia.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for skin, with forms such as "ksin", "sikn", and "skinn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "son", "sun", "sky", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is skin, spelled S-K-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.