air
/er/
The verdict
“air” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,747) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,747
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sobre.
Corpus desk
Index ES-air · air · Spanish
air · rank #6,747 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,747
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH agricultores
Nearest frequency peer: agricultores (-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 “air”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- acordar
acordar
93,257 corpus weight
- acudir
acudir
93,256 corpus weight
- agricultores
agricultores
93,255 corpus weight
- air
air
93,254 corpus weight
- almirante
almirante
93,253 corpus weight
- analiza
analiza
93,252 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “air” 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 | air |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | /er/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “air”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for air is neighbouring look-alikes ("al", "ay", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced /er/. Frequency #6,747 among 7,704 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for air in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "al", "ay", "as", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is air, spelled A-I-R.
Definition
- 1Sobre.
- 2En.
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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