tomillo
[t̪oˈmiʝo]
The verdict
“tomillo” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #37,882. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,882
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Thymus spp) Nombre común en español con el que se conocen a diversas plantas del género Thymus, de la familia de las labiadas (Lamiales) (Lamiaceae). El más común y conocido es Thymus vulgaris, qu...
Corpus desk
Index ES-tomillo · tomillo · Spanish
tomillo · rank #37,882 · 8 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,882
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH trabajados
Nearest frequency peer: trabajados (+2 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 “tomillo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- tamal
tamal
62,124 corpus weight
- taurina
taurina
62,123 corpus weight
- telaraña
telaraña
62,122 corpus weight
- tomillo
tomillo
62,119 corpus weight
- trabajados
trabajados
62,117 corpus weight
- transformad…
transformadores
62,115 corpus weight
What this shows “tomillo” 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 | tomillo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪oˈmiʝo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “tomillo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around tomillo (IPA [t̪oˈmiʝo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,882 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(Thymus spp) Nombre común en español con el que se conocen a diversas plantas del género Thymus, de la familia de las labiadas (Lamiales) (Lamiaceae). El más común y conocido es Thymus vulgaris, qu...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for tomillo, with forms such as "otmillo", "tmoillo", and "toimllo". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "trillo", "tornillo", "tobillo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 tomillo, spelled T-O-M-I-L-L-O.
Definition
- 1(Thymus spp) Nombre común en español con el que se conocen a diversas plantas del género Thymus, de la familia de las labiadas (Lamiales) (Lamiaceae). El más común y conocido es Thymus vulgaris, que se emplea como condimento y como planta medicinal. Los tomillos son plantas perennes, de tallo leñoso, de escasa altura, que viven en suelos pobres y pedregosos de regiones secas. Sus hojas son diminutas y poseen esencias aromáticas.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otmillo
- tmoillo
- toimllo
- tomilo
- tomilol
- tomlilo
- tommillo
- ttomillo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tomillo - 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
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).