sorpresa
[soɾˈpɾesa]
The verdict
“sorpresa” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #1,962. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,962
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción o efecto de sorprender
Corpus desk
Index ES-sorpresa · sorpresa · Spanish
sorpresa · rank #1,962 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,962
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sonido
Nearest frequency peer: sonido (-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 “sorpresa”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- sesión
sesión
98,042 corpus weight
- software
software
98,041 corpus weight
- sonido
sonido
98,040 corpus weight
- sorpresa
sorpresa
98,039 corpus weight
- sucede
sucede
98,038 corpus weight
- tarjeta
tarjeta
98,037 corpus weight
What this shows “sorpresa” 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 | sorpresa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [soɾˈpɾesa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “sorpresa”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around sorpresa (IPA [soɾˈpɾesa]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,962 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sorpresa, with forms such as "osrpresa", "soprresa", and "sorpersa". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "sorpresas", "sorpresiva", "sorprenda", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is sorpresa, spelled S-O-R-P-R-E-S-A.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de sorprender
- 2Lo que provoca impresión por ser algo inesperado.
- 3Figurilla metida en el roscón de Reyes, y que, supuestamente, le trae fortuna a quien la encuentra.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osrpresa
- soprresa
- sorpersa
- sorppresa
- sorpreas
- sorpressa
- sorprresa
- sorprsea
- sorrpesa
- sorrpresa
- sropresa
- ssorpresa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sorpresa - 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 "sorpresa", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).