sobras
[ˈsoβ̞ɾas]
The verdict
“sobras” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #18,982. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,982
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parte que queda de algo, especialmente comida, después de usarlo o consumirlo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sobras · sobras · Spanish
sobras · rank #18,982 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,982
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH siniestra
Nearest frequency peer: siniestra (-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 “sobras”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- seríamos
seríamos
81,022 corpus weight
- sinceras
sinceras
81,021 corpus weight
- siniestra
siniestra
81,020 corpus weight
- sobras
sobras
81,019 corpus weight
- sobrevivier…
sobrevivieron
81,018 corpus weight
- sorda
sorda
81,016 corpus weight
What this shows “sobras” 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 | sobras |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsoβ̞ɾas] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “sobras”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sobras (IPA [ˈsoβ̞ɾas]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,982 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sobras, with forms such as "osbras", "sboras", and "sobars". 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, "sobre", "Solas", "subas", 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 sobras, spelled S-O-B-R-A-S.
Definition
- 1Parte que queda de algo, especialmente comida, después de usarlo o consumirlo.
- 2Estipendio periódico, en particular el diario o semanal, generalmente modesto.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sobras appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La modestia de la hacienda del hidalgo se ratifica con el hecho de que «las más noches» toma salpicón, un plato que se elaboraba con las sobras de la olla de mediodía, aunque había otro tipo, llamado «salpicón de vaca», que se elaboraba solo con esta carne.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osbras
- sboras
- sobars
- sobbras
- sobrass
- sobrras
- sobrsa
- sorbas
- sovras
- ssobras
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sobras - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "sobras", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).