viruela
[biˈɾwela]
The verdict
“viruela” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #25,090. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,090
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 12,062
- “V” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Enfermedad infecciosa grave, contagiosa que en algunos casos puede causar la muerte. No hay tratamiento especial para la viruela y la única forma de prevención es la vacunación. La viruela es causa...
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 | viruela |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [biˈɾwela] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #25,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “viruela” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around viruela (IPA [biˈɾwela]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,090 among 12,062 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Enfermedad infecciosa grave, contagiosa que en algunos casos puede causar la muerte. No hay tratamiento especial para la viruela y la única forma de prevención es la vacunación. La viruela es causa...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for viruela, with forms such as "biruela", "ivruela", and "vireula". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "vuela", "Varela", "Videla", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is viruela, spelled V-I-R-U-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1Enfermedad infecciosa grave, contagiosa que en algunos casos puede causar la muerte. No hay tratamiento especial para la viruela y la única forma de prevención es la vacunación. La viruela es causada por el virus variola que surgió en poblaciones humanas miles de años atrás. Excepto por las reservas en algunos laboratorios, el virus variola está eliminado.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- biruela
- ivruela
- vireula
- virruela
- virueal
- viruella
- virulea
- viurela
- vriuela
- vviruela
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of viruela - 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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Using “viruela”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is V-I-R-U-E-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [biˈɾwela] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “vuela” - see the side-by-side comparison. viruela vs vuela
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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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.