type
/taɪp/
The verdict
“type” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #30,707. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,707
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Escribir o pasar a máquina
Corpus desk
Index ES-type · type · Spanish
type · rank #30,707 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,707
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH trébol
Nearest frequency peer: trébol (-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 “type”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- trick
trick
69,297 corpus weight
- truth
truth
69,296 corpus weight
- trébol
trébol
69,295 corpus weight
- type
type
69,294 corpus weight
- térmicas
térmicas
69,293 corpus weight
- uniformidad
uniformidad
69,292 corpus weight
What this shows “type” 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 | type |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /taɪp/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #30,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “type”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around type (IPA /taɪp/), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,707 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Escribir o pasar a máquina".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for type, with forms such as "tpye", "ttype", and "tyep". 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, "té", "ty", "the", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is type, spelled T-Y-P-E.
Definition
- 1Escribir o pasar a máquina
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- tpye
- ttype
- tyep
- typpe
- tyype
- ytpe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of type - 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 "type", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).