Español (Spanish)
A free Spanish word reference: definitions, IPA pronunciation, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections from the open Wiktionary corpus.
Spanish at a glance
PlainSpell indexes 770,428 Spanish words with 323,831 confusable pairs and 812 homophones; more Spanish words begin with “C” than any other letter, and “desde vs donde” is the pair most likely to be confused.
- 770,428
- Spanish words
- 323,831
- confusable pairs
- 812
- homophones
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2026). Definitions, IPA pronunciation, etymology and spelling corrections, free.
Where Spanish sits by word inventory
Spanish indexes 770,428 headwords among 5 languages (corpus inventory, not a quality ranking). Orthogonal to the letter and length charts below.
Spanish vs all languages by word count
Where this language's indexed vocabulary sits among every PlainSpell language
770,428 3rd of 5 higher than 2 of 5 languages
Languages, banded by headword inventory
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more languages. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source Wiktionary (CC BY-SA) via PlainSpell · 2026-09-03
Spanish homophone groups by size
Exclusive cut of 387 Spanish homophone groups by member count. Orthogonal to the initial-letter chart and word-length distribution below.
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Which letters start the most Spanish words?
Most common initial letters in Spanish
Top 10 letters, ranked by how many indexed words begin with each
- C
C
8,288 words
- A
A
7,704 words
- P
P
6,028 words
- E
E
5,243 words
- D
D
4,885 words
- S
S
4,169 words
- R
R
4,151 words
- M
M
3,868 words
- I
I
3,428 words
- T 3,005
T
3,005 words
How long are Spanish words?
Spanish word lengths
67,900 words by word length (letters); the ranking above is drawn from the right-hand tail
word length (letters) →
What this showsSpanish vocabulary clusters around the middle lengths; the very short and very long words are a small minority of the indexed corpus.
Palabras más frecuentes
Pares más confundibles
- 1desdevsdonde
- 2tenervstiene
- 3muchovsmundo
- 4habíavshasta
- 5todasvstodos
- 6estadovsestán
- 7estánvsestoy
- 8mejorvsmenos
- 9tantovstengo
- 10tenervstengo
Top 5 pares confundibles de un vistazo
Clasificados por frecuencia compuesta × similitud visual. Barra más alta = mayor probabilidad de sustitución real.
Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Spanish confusables export · Q2 2026 Confusable scores combine word-frequency rank and Damerau–Levenshtein similarity.
Explore Spanish
Three ways into the corpus from here.
- Look up any Spanish word for its definition, IPA pronunciation, etymology and misspellings. Browse Spanish A–Z
- Settle a confusable pair, which spelling means what, compared side by side. Confusable pairs
- See the cross-language rankings: hardest to spell, most confusable, largest homophone groups. Rankings
Source & data vintage
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) Spanish headword + definitions corpus · Q2 2026 Aggregated and indexed via kaikki.org dictionary export. Confusable pairs are computed; homophone groups are derived from IPA matches.
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