tercios
[ˈt̪eɾsjos]
The verdict
“tercios” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #11,687. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,687
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de tercio.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tercios · tercios · Spanish
tercios · rank #11,687 · 11 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,687
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH Tarragona
Nearest frequency peer: Tarragona (-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 “tercios”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- tapar
tapar
88,317 corpus weight
- Tarragona
Tarragona
88,315 corpus weight
- tercios
tercios
88,314 corpus weight
- trabajaron
trabajaron
88,313 corpus weight
- travesía
travesía
88,312 corpus weight
- venda
venda
88,311 corpus weight
What this shows “tercios” 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 | tercios |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪eɾsjos] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “tercios”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around tercios (IPA [ˈt̪eɾsjos]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,687 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del plural de tercio.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for tercios, with forms such as "etrcios", "tecrios", and "terccios". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "terco", "tríos", "turcos", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is tercios, spelled T-E-R-C-I-O-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de tercio.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etrcios
- tecrios
- terccios
- tercioss
- terciso
- tercois
- tericos
- terrcios
- tersios
- trecios
- ttercios
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tercios - 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 "tercios", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).