Adam
[aˈð̞ãm]
The verdict
“Adam” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,253) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,253
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personaje bíblico^([definición imprecisa])
Corpus desk
Index ES-adam · Adam · Spanish
Adam · rank #6,253 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,253
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH acostumbrado
Nearest frequency peer: acostumbrado (-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 “Adam”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- énfasis
énfasis
93,751 corpus weight
- acostumbrado
acostumbrado
93,749 corpus weight
- Adam
Adam
93,748 corpus weight
- admite
admite
93,747 corpus weight
- advertencia
advertencia
93,746 corpus weight
- afortunadam…
afortunadamente
93,745 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “Adam” 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 | Adam |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [aˈð̞ãm] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “Adam”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Adam is neighbouring look-alikes ("am", "Ana", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [aˈð̞ãm]. Frequency #6,253 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Personaje bíblico^([definición imprecisa])".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for Adam, with forms such as "aadm", "adamm", and "addam". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "am", "Ana", "ama", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is Adam, spelled A-D-A-M.
Definition
- 1Personaje bíblico^([definición imprecisa])
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aadm
- adamm
- addam
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Adam - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Adam", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).