Tony
/ˈtəʊ.ni/
The verdict
“Tony” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #5,052. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,052
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nombre de pila de varón, diminutivo de Anthony.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tony · Tony · Spanish
Tony · rank #5,052 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,052
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH terremoto
Nearest frequency peer: terremoto (-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 “Tony”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Suárez
Suárez
94,952 corpus weight
- terminal
terminal
94,951 corpus weight
- terremoto
terremoto
94,950 corpus weight
- Tony
Tony
94,949 corpus weight
- trampa
trampa
94,947 corpus weight
- tremendo
tremendo
94,946 corpus weight
What this shows “Tony” 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 | Tony |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈtəʊ.ni/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Tony”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Tony (IPA /ˈtəʊ.ni/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #5,052 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nombre de pila de varón, diminutivo de Anthony.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Tony, with forms such as "otny", "tnoy", and "tonny". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ty", "top", "tos", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Tony, spelled T-O-N-Y.
Definition
- 1Nombre de pila de varón, diminutivo de Anthony.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otny
- tnoy
- tonny
- tonyy
- toyn
- ttony
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Tony - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).