sortear
[soɾt̪eˈaɾ]
The verdict
“sortear” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #18,391. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,391
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Someter a la suerte la resolución de algo, empleando medios fortuitos o casuales.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sortear · sortear · Spanish
sortear · rank #18,391 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,391
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sorprendería
Nearest frequency peer: sorprendería (-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 “sortear”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- sociólogo
sociólogo
81,613 corpus weight
- solicito
solicito
81,612 corpus weight
- sorprendería
sorprendería
81,611 corpus weight
- sortear
sortear
81,610 corpus weight
- spoiler
spoiler
81,609 corpus weight
- start
start
81,608 corpus weight
What this shows “sortear” 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 | sortear |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [soɾt̪eˈaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “sortear”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sortear (IPA [soɾt̪eˈaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,391 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 sortear, with forms such as "osrtear", "soretar", and "sorrtear". 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, "sorteo", "sorteos", "soltar", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is sortear, spelled S-O-R-T-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1Someter a la suerte la resolución de algo, empleando medios fortuitos o casuales.
- 2Evitar con maña o eludir un compromiso, conflicto, riesgo o dificultad.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sortear appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[El cazador] sortea las anchas matas de cardos que se arrastran en la penumbra; receloso de aquella vegetación a la vez quemante y helada.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osrtear
- soretar
- sorrtear
- sortaer
- sortearr
- sortera
- sorttear
- sotrear
- srotear
- ssortear
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sortear - 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 "sortear", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).