sucumbir
[sukũmˈbiɾ]
The verdict
“sucumbir” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #37,873. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,873
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendirse o ceder ante una fuerza o deseo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sucumbir · sucumbir · Spanish
sucumbir · rank #37,873 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #37,873
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH subway
Nearest frequency peer: subway (-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 “sucumbir”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- subnormal
subnormal
62,132 corpus weight
- subsiste
subsiste
62,130 corpus weight
- subway
subway
62,129 corpus weight
- sucumbir
sucumbir
62,128 corpus weight
- suplica
suplica
62,127 corpus weight
- tacho
tacho
62,125 corpus weight
What this shows “sucumbir” 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 | sucumbir |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [sukũmˈbiɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #37,873 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “sucumbir”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around sucumbir (IPA [sukũmˈbiɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,873 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for sucumbir, with forms such as "scuumbir", "ssucumbir", and "succumbir". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "sucumbió", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is sucumbir, spelled S-U-C-U-M-B-I-R.
Definition
- 1Rendirse o ceder ante una fuerza o deseo.
- 2Llegar la vida a su fin, especialmente por causa de enfermedad o violencia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sucumbir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si a Guatimozín sucesor de Moctezuma, se le trata como emperador, y le ponen la corona, fue por irrisión y no por respeto, para que experimentase este escarnio antes que las torturas. Iguales a la suerte de este monarca fueron las del rey de Michoacán, Catzontzin; el Zipa de Bogotá, y cuantos Toquis, Imas, Zipas, Ulmenes, Caciques y demás dignidades india…
Excusado es decir a ustedes que los pocos víveres que había se fueron acabando hasta que no quedó nada, sin que el gobernador diera a esto importancia aparente, pues cada hora se sostenía más en su tema de que Gerona no se rendiría mientras él viviese, y aunque media población sucumbiera a las penas del hambre y a las calenturas que se iban desarrollando…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- scuumbir
- ssucumbir
- succumbir
- sucmubir
- sucubmir
- sucumbbir
- sucumbirr
- sucumbri
- sucumibr
- sucummbir
- sucumvir
- suucmbir
- uscumbir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sucumbir - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).