ally
/ˈæl.aɪ/ (sustantivo; también usado para el verbo)
The verdict
“ally” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,474) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,474
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aliado.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ally · ally · Spanish
ally · rank #27,474 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,474
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH alimentario
Nearest frequency peer: alimentario (-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 “ally”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Alberdi
Alberdi
72,530 corpus weight
- alimentario
alimentario
72,528 corpus weight
- ally
ally
72,527 corpus weight
- amargos
amargos
72,526 corpus weight
- Amaya
Amaya
72,525 corpus weight
- amer
amer
72,524 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ally” 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 | ally |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈæl.aɪ/ (sustantivo; también usado para el verbo) |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ally”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ally is neighbouring look-alikes ("ay", "Amy", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈæl.aɪ/ (sustantivo; también usado para el verbo). Frequency #27,474 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Aliado.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for ally, with forms such as "allyy", "aly", and "alyl". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ay", "Amy", "any", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is ally, spelled A-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Aliado.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- allyy
- aly
- alyl
- laly
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ally - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "ally", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).