ace
[ˈase]
The verdict
“ace” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,245) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,245
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En el tenis y otros deportes similares, y en el vóley, tanto que se gana con el saque y sin que el rival pueda tocar la pelota.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ace · ace · Spanish
ace · rank #16,245 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,245
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH abdominal
Nearest frequency peer: abdominal (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “ace”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- abandonando
abandonando
83,758 corpus weight
- abdominal
abdominal
83,757 corpus weight
- ace
ace
83,756 corpus weight
- aceptados
aceptados
83,755 corpus weight
- acepten
acepten
83,754 corpus weight
- acordé
acordé
83,753 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ace” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | ace |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈase] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ace”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ace is neighbouring look-alikes ("al", "ah", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈase]. Frequency #16,245 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "En el tenis y otros deportes similares, y en el vóley, tanto que se gana con el saque y sin que el rival pueda tocar la pelota.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ace in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is ace, spelled A-C-E.
Definition
- 1En el tenis y otros deportes similares, y en el vóley, tanto que se gana con el saque y sin que el rival pueda tocar la pelota.
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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