tacaño
[t̪aˈkaɲo]
The verdict
“tacaño” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #49,303. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,303
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dice de la persona poco dadivosa, que valora en exceso el dinero, o que es sumamente apegada al mismo, y tiene un interés en gastar lo menos posible.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tacano · tacaño · Spanish
tacaño · rank #49,303 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,303
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tabernáculo
Nearest frequency peer: tabernáculo (-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 “tacaño”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- superpotenc…
superpotencia
50,703 corpus weight
- surtidor
surtidor
50,702 corpus weight
- sánscrito
sánscrito
50,700 corpus weight
- tabernáculo
tabernáculo
50,699 corpus weight
- tacaño
tacaño
50,698 corpus weight
- tanks
tanks
50,696 corpus weight
What this shows “tacaño” 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 | tacaño |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [t̪aˈkaɲo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “tacaño”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tacaño (IPA [t̪aˈkaɲo]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #49,303 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Se dice de la persona poco dadivosa, que valora en exceso el dinero, o que es sumamente apegada al mismo, y tiene un interés en gastar lo menos posible.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tacaño, with forms such as "atcaño", "taacño", and "tacaoñ". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "taco", "tano", "tocan", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 tacaño, spelled T-A-C-A-Ñ-O.
Definition
- 1Se dice de la persona poco dadivosa, que valora en exceso el dinero, o que es sumamente apegada al mismo, y tiene un interés en gastar lo menos posible.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atcaño
- taacño
- tacaoñ
- taccaño
- tacñao
- tcaaño
- ttacaño
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tacaño - 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
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).