Ada
[ˈað̞a]
The verdict
“Ada” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,177) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,177
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nombre de pila de mujer.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ada · Ada · Spanish
Ada · rank #13,177 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,177
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH action
Nearest frequency peer: action (-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 “Ada”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- abrirse
abrirse
86,826 corpus weight
- action
action
86,825 corpus weight
- Ada
Ada
86,824 corpus weight
- afirmado
afirmado
86,823 corpus weight
- agitación
agitación
86,821 corpus weight
- agujas
agujas
86,820 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “Ada” 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 | Ada |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈað̞a] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “Ada”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ada is neighbouring look-alikes ("al", "ah", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈað̞a]. Frequency #13,177 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Nombre de pila de mujer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Ada, 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is Ada, spelled A-D-A.
Definition
- 1Nombre de pila de mujer.
This word in other languages
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).