tifón
[t̪iˈfõn]
The verdict
“tifón” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #28,182. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,182
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nombre que recibe un ciclón tropical producido en el mar de la China. Los tifones aparecen normalmente en verano y/o en otoño. Van acompañados de lluvias y vientos violentos con ráfagas de más que ...
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Index ES-tifon · tifón · Spanish
tifón · rank #28,182 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,182
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH termas
Nearest frequency peer: termas (-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 “tifón”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- tenaz
tenaz
71,822 corpus weight
- termas
termas
71,820 corpus weight
- tifón
tifón
71,819 corpus weight
- tiroteos
tiroteos
71,818 corpus weight
- tracto
tracto
71,817 corpus weight
- transcurrió
transcurrió
71,816 corpus weight
What this shows “tifón” 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 | tifón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪iˈfõn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #28,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “tifón”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tifón (IPA [t̪iˈfõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,182 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tifón, with forms such as "itfón", "tfión", and "tiffón". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tío", "tin", "ton", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 tifón, spelled T-I-F-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Nombre que recibe un ciclón tropical producido en el mar de la China. Los tifones aparecen normalmente en verano y/o en otoño. Van acompañados de lluvias y vientos violentos con ráfagas de más que 33m/s.
- 2Embudo de agua que gira por efecto de un torbellino atmosférico y que se eleva desde la superficie del mar o de otros cuerpos de agua.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- itfón
- tfión
- tiffón
- tifnó
- tifónn
- tiófn
- ttifón
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tifón - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).