sunset
/ˈsʌnˌsɛt/
The verdict
“sunset” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #33,343. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,343
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Puesta de sol, ocaso.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sunset · sunset · Spanish
sunset · rank #33,343 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #33,343
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH subyace
Nearest frequency peer: subyace (-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 “sunset”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- sostenerse
sostenerse
66,663 corpus weight
- subyace
subyace
66,659 corpus weight
- sunset
sunset
66,658 corpus weight
- tap
tap
66,656 corpus weight
- tapan
tapan
66,655 corpus weight
- tau
tau
66,654 corpus weight
What this shows “sunset” 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 | sunset |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsʌnˌsɛt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “sunset”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sunset (IPA /ˈsʌnˌsɛt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,343 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 sunset, with forms such as "snuset", "ssunset", and "suncet". 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, "sense", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is sunset, spelled S-U-N-S-E-T.
Definition
- 1Puesta de sol, ocaso.
- 2Atardecer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- snuset
- ssunset
- suncet
- sunest
- sunnset
- sunsett
- sunsset
- sunste
- susnet
- usnset
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sunset - 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 "sunset", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).