tape
[ˈt̪ape]
The verdict
“tape” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #27,796. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,796
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Persona aindiada, de color moreno, que conserva el tipo de los guaraníes que habitaban la reducción jesuítica de Santo Tomé Apóstol en las Misiones, a la cual se decía Provincia del Tapé.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tape · tape · Spanish
tape · rank #27,796 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,796
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tamil
Nearest frequency peer: tamil (-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 “tape”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- talentosos
talentosos
72,208 corpus weight
- tallado
tallado
72,207 corpus weight
- tamil
tamil
72,206 corpus weight
- tape
tape
72,205 corpus weight
- tar
tar
72,204 corpus weight
- teñido
teñido
72,202 corpus weight
What this shows “tape” 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 | tape |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ape] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “tape”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around tape (IPA [ˈt̪ape]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,796 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Persona aindiada, de color moreno, que conserva el tipo de los guaraníes que habitaban la reducción jesuítica de Santo Tomé Apóstol en las Misiones, a la cual se decía Provincia del Tapé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for tape, with forms such as "atpe", "taep", and "tappe". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "té", "the", "top", 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 tape, spelled T-A-P-E.
Definition
- 1Persona aindiada, de color moreno, que conserva el tipo de los guaraníes que habitaban la reducción jesuítica de Santo Tomé Apóstol en las Misiones, a la cual se decía Provincia del Tapé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atpe
- taep
- tappe
- tpae
- ttape
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tape - 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
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).