ago
/əˈɡəʊ/
The verdict
“ago” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,603) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,603
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hace.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ago · ago · Spanish
ago · rank #13,603 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,603
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH advertir
Nearest frequency peer: advertir (-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 “ago”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- acuden
acuden
86,401 corpus weight
- advertir
advertir
86,399 corpus weight
- ago
ago
86,398 corpus weight
- agradecería
agradecería
86,397 corpus weight
- Alaska
Alaska
86,396 corpus weight
- alegres
alegres
86,395 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ago” 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 | ago |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /əˈɡəʊ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ago”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ago is neighbouring look-alikes ("al", "ah", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /əˈɡəʊ/. Frequency #13,603 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Hace.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ago 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, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is ago, spelled A-G-O.
Definition
- 1Hace.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ago appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
ten years ago, "hace diez años".
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).