southern
/ˈsʌð.ən/
The verdict
“southern” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #15,232. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,232
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sureño.
Corpus desk
Index ES-southern · southern · Spanish
southern · rank #15,232 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,232
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH spa
Nearest frequency peer: spa (+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 “southern”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- server
server
84,772 corpus weight
- Silvio
Silvio
84,771 corpus weight
- southern
southern
84,769 corpus weight
- spa
spa
84,768 corpus weight
- Stefan
Stefan
84,767 corpus weight
- sudamericano
sudamericano
84,766 corpus weight
What this shows “southern” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | southern |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈsʌð.ən/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “southern”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around southern (IPA /ˈsʌð.ən/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,232 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for southern, with forms such as "osuthern", "sotuhern", and "souhtern". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is southern, spelled S-O-U-T-H-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1Sureño.
- 2Meridional.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osuthern
- sotuhern
- souhtern
- soutehrn
- southenr
- southernn
- southerrn
- southhern
- southren
- soutthern
- ssouthern
- suothern
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of southern - 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 "southern", 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).