thing
/θɪŋ/
The verdict
“thing” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #26,644. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,644
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cosa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-thing · thing · Spanish
thing · rank #26,644 · 8 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,644
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH these
Nearest frequency peer: these (-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 “thing”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- tened
tened
73,361 corpus weight
- texturas
texturas
73,359 corpus weight
- these
these
73,358 corpus weight
- thing
thing
73,357 corpus weight
- tiradas
tiradas
73,356 corpus weight
- torpedo
torpedo
73,353 corpus weight
What this shows “thing” 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 | thing |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /θɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,644 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “thing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around thing (IPA /θɪŋ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,644 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for thing, with forms such as "hting", "thhing", and "thign". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "tin", "this", "tina", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is thing, spelled T-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Cosa.
- 2Ser, criatura.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made
Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hting
- thhing
- thign
- thingg
- thinng
- thnig
- tihng
- tthing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of thing - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "thing", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).