sostengo
[sosˈt̪ẽŋgo]
The verdict
“sostengo” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #27,020. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,020
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de sostener o de sostenerse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sostengo · sostengo · Spanish
sostengo · rank #27,020 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,020
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH split
Nearest frequency peer: split (+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 “sostengo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- sobresalen
sobresalen
72,984 corpus weight
- soliciten
soliciten
72,983 corpus weight
- sostengo
sostengo
72,981 corpus weight
- split
split
72,980 corpus weight
- stones
stones
72,979 corpus weight
- sumido
sumido
72,978 corpus weight
What this shows “sostengo” 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 | sostengo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [sosˈt̪ẽŋgo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “sostengo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around sostengo (IPA [sosˈt̪ẽŋgo]), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,020 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de sostener o de sostenerse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sostengo, with forms such as "osstengo", "sosetngo", and "sosstengo". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "sustento", "sostenía", "sostenido", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 sostengo, spelled S-O-S-T-E-N-G-O.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de sostener o de sostenerse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osstengo
- sosetngo
- sosstengo
- sostegno
- sostenggo
- sostenngo
- sostenog
- sostnego
- sosttengo
- sotsengo
- ssostengo
- ssotengo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sostengo - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "sostengo", 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).