Sofía
[soˈfia]
The verdict
“Sofía” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #7,076. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,076
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capital de Bulgaria.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sofia · Sofía · Spanish
Sofía · rank #7,076 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,076
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH Socorro
Nearest frequency peer: Socorro (-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 “Sofía”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- seremos
seremos
92,928 corpus weight
- sexualidad
sexualidad
92,927 corpus weight
- Socorro
Socorro
92,926 corpus weight
- Sofía
Sofía
92,925 corpus weight
- trabajadora
trabajadora
92,923 corpus weight
- tranquilos
tranquilos
92,922 corpus weight
What this shows “Sofía” 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 | Sofía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [soˈfia] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Sofía”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Sofía (IPA [soˈfia]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #7,076 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sofía, with forms such as "osfía", "sfoía", and "sofaí". 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, "soi", "Sola", "sois", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is Sofía, spelled S-O-F-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Capital de Bulgaria.
- 2Nombre de pila de mujer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osfía
- sfoía
- sofaí
- soffía
- soífa
- ssofía
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sofía - 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 "Sofía", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).