UNIX
[uˈniks]
The verdict
“UNIX” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #41,113. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,113
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 448
- “U” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sistema operativo multitárea y multiusuario desarrollado en 1969 por los ingenieros del laboratorio Bell de AT&T, UNIX implementó la estructura POSIX, usada actualmente por otros sistemas operativo...
Corpus desk
Index ES-unix · UNIX · Spanish
UNIX · rank #41,113 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,113
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 448
- PHOTO-FINISH Umberto
Nearest frequency peer: Umberto (-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 “UNIX”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- trimestrales
trimestrales
58,892 corpus weight
- ubico
ubico
58,890 corpus weight
- Umberto
Umberto
58,889 corpus weight
- UNIX
UNIX
58,888 corpus weight
- urinario
urinario
58,887 corpus weight
- utópica
utópica
58,885 corpus weight
What this shows “UNIX” 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 | UNIX |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [uˈniks] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #41,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “UNIX”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around UNIX (IPA [uˈniks]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #41,113 among 448 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sistema operativo multitárea y multiusuario desarrollado en 1969 por los ingenieros del laboratorio Bell de AT&T, UNIX implementó la estructura POSIX, usada actualmente por otros sistemas operativo...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for UNIX, with forms such as "nuix", "uinx", and "unixx". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "uno", "Uri", "uns", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 UNIX, spelled U-N-I-X.
Definition
- 1Sistema operativo multitárea y multiusuario desarrollado en 1969 por los ingenieros del laboratorio Bell de AT&T, UNIX implementó la estructura POSIX, usada actualmente por otros sistemas operativos como Linux, Solaris o BSD.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nuix
- uinx
- unixx
- unnix
- unxi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of UNIX - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).