what
/ʍɒt/ (sin la fusión–)
The verdict
“what” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #7,377. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,377
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 230
- “W” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qué.
Corpus desk
Index ES-what · what · Spanish
what · rank #7,377 · 6 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,377
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 230
- PHOTO-FINISH vivían
Nearest frequency peer: vivían (-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 “what”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- vendedores
vendedores
92,628 corpus weight
- vendió
vendió
92,627 corpus weight
- veneno
veneno
92,626 corpus weight
- vivían
vivían
92,625 corpus weight
- what
what
92,624 corpus weight
- Abraham
Abraham
92,621 corpus weight
What this shows “what” 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 | what |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ʍɒt/ (sin la fusión–) |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “what”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around what (IPA /ʍɒt/ (sin la fusión–)), apronoun. Corpus frequency is #7,377 among 230 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for what, with forms such as "hwat", "waht", and "whatt". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "who", "why", "when", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is what, spelled W-H-A-T.
Definition
- 1Qué.
- 2Cuál.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hwat
- waht
- whatt
- whhat
- whta
- wwhat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of what - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "what", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).