ae
/aˈe/
The verdict
“ae” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,556) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,556
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Por causa de.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ae · ae · Spanish
ae · rank #20,556 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,556
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH adoptados
Nearest frequency peer: adoptados (-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 “ae”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- actúen
actúen
79,448 corpus weight
- acusaron
acusaron
79,447 corpus weight
- adoptados
adoptados
79,446 corpus weight
- ae
ae
79,445 corpus weight
- afirmaron
afirmaron
79,444 corpus weight
- agarrando
agarrando
79,443 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ae” 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 | ae |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /aˈe/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #20,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ae”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ae is neighbouring look-alikes ("al", "ah", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced /aˈe/. Frequency #20,556 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Por causa de.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ae, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 ae, spelled A-E.
Definition
- 1Por causa de.
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.