thread
/θɹɛd/
The verdict
“thread” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #36,847. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,847
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hilo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-thread · thread · Spanish
thread · rank #36,847 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,847
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH Theresa
Nearest frequency peer: Theresa (-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 “thread”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Temperley
Temperley
63,158 corpus weight
- Tetuán
Tetuán
63,157 corpus weight
- Teófilo
Teófilo
63,156 corpus weight
- Theresa
Theresa
63,155 corpus weight
- thread
thread
63,154 corpus weight
- Tobías
Tobías
63,151 corpus weight
What this shows “thread” 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 | thread |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /θɹɛd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,847 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “thread”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around thread (IPA /θɹɛd/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,847 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for thread, with forms such as "htread", "therad", and "thhread". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "three", "tarea", "tareas", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is thread, spelled T-H-R-E-A-D.
Definition
- 1Hilo.
- 2Serie de conversaciones o mensajes con el mismo tema.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- htread
- therad
- thhread
- thraed
- threadd
- threda
- thrread
- trhead
- tthread
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of thread - 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 "thread", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).