abe
[ˈaːbə]
The verdict
“abe” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,852) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,852
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Simio, mono, chango.
Corpus desk
Index ES-abe · abe · Spanish
abe · rank #17,852 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,852
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH abres
Nearest frequency peer: abres (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “abe”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- ye
ye
82,152 corpus weight
- ágil
ágil
82,151 corpus weight
- abe
abe
82,149 corpus weight
- abres
abres
82,148 corpus weight
- academias
academias
82,147 corpus weight
- acercándose
acercándose
82,146 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “abe” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | abe |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaːbə] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “abe” en la frecuencia del español
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for abe is neighbouring look-alikes ("al", "ah", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈaːbə]. Frequency #17,852 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Simio, mono, chango.".
No misspelling variants are generated for abe 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, "al", "ah", "ay", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is abe, spelled A-B-E.
Definition
- 1Simio, mono, chango.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "abe" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "al". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #17,852 among Spanish headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.