varicela
[baɾiˈsela]
The verdict
“varicela” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #43,923. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,923
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enfermedad contagiosa causada por el virus varicela-zoster, un virus de la familia de los herpesvirus que también es el causante del herpes zóster. Es una de las enfermedades clásicas de la infanci...
Corpus desk
Index ES-varicela · varicela · Spanish
varicela · rank #43,923 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,923
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH vampire
Nearest frequency peer: vampire (-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 “varicela”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Urquijo
Urquijo
56,082 corpus weight
- vampire
vampire
56,079 corpus weight
- varicela
varicela
56,078 corpus weight
- vasito
vasito
56,077 corpus weight
- vecindarios
vecindarios
56,076 corpus weight
- vencedora
vencedora
56,075 corpus weight
What this shows “varicela” 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 | varicela |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baɾiˈsela] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “varicela”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around varicela (IPA [baɾiˈsela]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,923 among 1,793 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Enfermedad contagiosa causada por el virus varicela-zoster, un virus de la familia de los herpesvirus que también es el causante del herpes zóster. Es una de las enfermedades clásicas de la infanci...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for varicela, with forms such as "avricela", "baricela", and "vaircela". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "varilla", "Varela", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is varicela, spelled V-A-R-I-C-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1Enfermedad contagiosa causada por el virus varicela-zoster, un virus de la familia de los herpesvirus que también es el causante del herpes zóster. Es una de las enfermedades clásicas de la infancia, que en los niños suele ser leve pero en adolescentes y adultos tiene mayor riesgo de complicaciones. La enfermedad dura alrededor de una semana.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avricela
- baricela
- vaircela
- varciela
- variccela
- variceal
- varicella
- variclea
- variecla
- varisela
- varricela
- vraicela
- vvaricela
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of varicela - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).