virrey
[biˈrej]
The verdict
“virrey” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #10,953. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,953
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dice de una persona que gobierna en el lugar del rey.
Corpus desk
Index ES-virrey · virrey · Spanish
virrey · rank #10,953 · 8 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,953
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH visitando
Nearest frequency peer: visitando (+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 “virrey”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- veterano
veterano
89,052 corpus weight
- videojuego
videojuego
89,051 corpus weight
- Vincent
Vincent
89,050 corpus weight
- virrey
virrey
89,048 corpus weight
- visitando
visitando
89,047 corpus weight
- zapato
zapato
89,045 corpus weight
What this shows “virrey” 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 | virrey |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [biˈrej] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “virrey”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around virrey (IPA [biˈrej]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,953 among 1,793 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Se dice de una persona que gobierna en el lugar del rey.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for virrey, with forms such as "birrey", "ivrrey", and "virery". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "virreyes", "virgen", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is virrey, spelled V-I-R-R-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Se dice de una persona que gobierna en el lugar del rey.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- birrey
- ivrrey
- virery
- virey
- virreyy
- virrye
- vrirey
- vvirrey
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of virrey - 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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).