add
/æd/
The verdict
“add” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,393) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,393
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Añadir, adjuntar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-add · add · Spanish
add · rank #33,393 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,393
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH acusadas
Nearest frequency peer: acusadas (-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 “add”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- acudan
acudan
66,611 corpus weight
- acuerden
acuerden
66,610 corpus weight
- acusadas
acusadas
66,609 corpus weight
- add
add
66,608 corpus weight
- adquieran
adquieran
66,607 corpus weight
- adversa
adversa
66,606 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “add” 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 | add |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /æd/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,393 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “add”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for add is neighbouring look-alikes ("al", "ah", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /æd/. Frequency #33,393 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Añadir, adjuntar.".
No misspelling variants are generated for add in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is add, spelled A-D-D.
Definition
- 1Añadir, adjuntar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how add appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you
Antonyms
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).