skin
[ˈskĩn]
The verdict
“skin” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #24,657. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,657
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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.
Corpus desk
Index ES-skin · skin · Spanish
skin · rank #24,657 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,657
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH significación
Nearest frequency peer: significación (-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 “skin”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- 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
- sofisticados
sofisticados
75,342 corpus weight
What this shows “skin” 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 | skin |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈskĩn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “skin”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around skin (IPA [ˈskĩn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,657 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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 generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for skin, with forms such as "ksin", "sikn", and "skinn". 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, "son", "sun", "sky", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is skin, spelled S-K-I-N.
Definition
- 1Miembro 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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how skin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La distinción entre estas dos designaciones, neonazi y ultra, se debe a que la primera remite a un fondo racista y violento, y la segunda solamente a una postura política extremista conservadora. Entonces el skin es sobretodo la apariencia responde a la pregunta cómo se ve, ultra se refiere a cómo piensa, y neonazi a cómo actúa
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ksin
- sikn
- skinn
- skkin
- skni
- sskin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of skin - 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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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).