work
/wɜːk/
The verdict
“work” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #14,739. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,739
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 230
- “W” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trabajo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-work · work · Spanish
work · rank #14,739 · 6 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,739
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 230
- PHOTO-FINISH Wallace
Nearest frequency peer: Wallace (-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 “work”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Vila
Vila
85,265 corpus weight
- violada
violada
85,264 corpus weight
- Wallace
Wallace
85,263 corpus weight
- work
work
85,262 corpus weight
- yes
yes
85,260 corpus weight
- étnico
étnico
85,259 corpus weight
What this shows “work” 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 | work |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /wɜːk/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “work”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around work (IPA /wɜːk/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,739 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 work, with forms such as "owrk", "wokr", and "workk". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "wow", "world", "worth", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is work, spelled W-O-R-K.
Definition
- 1Trabajo.
- 2Obra.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how work appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent”
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- owrk
- wokr
- workk
- worrk
- wrok
- wwork
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of work - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "work", 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).