Rey
"rey" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Rey” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,813) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,813
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Spanish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rey · Rey · English
Rey · rank #9,813 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,813
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Rhode
Nearest frequency peer: Rhode (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “Rey”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- rendering
rendering
90,192 corpus weight
- reproduction
reproduction
90,191 corpus weight
- res
res
90,190 corpus weight
- Rey
Rey
90,188 corpus weight
- Rhode
Rhode
90,187 corpus weight
- shrimp
shrimp
90,186 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “Rey” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | Rey |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,813 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “Rey”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Rey is neighbouring look-alikes ("RS", "RT", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #9,813 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Gloss: "A surname from Spanish.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Rey in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RS", "RT", "RM", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Multiple origins; in most cases borrowed from Spanish Rey. Doublet of Roy. The correct English form is Rey, spelled R-E-Y.
Definition
- 1A surname from Spanish.
Etymology
Multiple origins; in most cases borrowed from Spanish Rey. Doublet of Roy.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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