vestigios
[besˈt̪ixjos]
The verdict
“vestigios” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #18,118. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,118
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 12,062
- “V” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Forma del plural de vestigio.
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 | vestigios |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [besˈt̪ixjos] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vestigios” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around vestigios (IPA [besˈt̪ixjos]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,118 among 12,062 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del plural de vestigio.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for vestigios, with forms such as "bestigios", "evstigios", and "vesitgios". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "vestidos", "vestigio", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 vestigios, spelled V-E-S-T-I-G-I-O-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de vestigio.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bestigios
- evstigios
- vesitgios
- vesstigios
- vestgiios
- vestiggios
- vestigioss
- vestigiso
- vestigois
- vestiigos
- vesttigios
- vetsigios
- vsetigios
- vvestigios
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vestigios - 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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Using “vestigios”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is V-E-S-T-I-G-I-O-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [besˈt̪ixjos] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “vestidos” - see the side-by-side comparison. vestigios vs vestidos
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.