ad
[ɑd]
The verdict
“ad” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,365) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,365
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nombre.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ad · ad · Spanish
ad · rank #5,365 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,365
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH acoso
Nearest frequency peer: acoso (-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 “ad”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- abandono
abandono
94,640 corpus weight
- abusos
abusos
94,639 corpus weight
- acoso
acoso
94,637 corpus weight
- ad
ad
94,636 corpus weight
- alrededores
alrededores
94,635 corpus weight
- alturas
alturas
94,634 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ad” 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 | ad |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɑd] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #5,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ad”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ad is neighbouring look-alikes ("al", "ah", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ɑd]. Frequency #5,365 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Nombre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ad in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is ad, spelled A-D.
Definition
- 1Nombre.
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.