amb
[am]
The verdict
“amb” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,477) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,477
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Con, en colaboración con, en compañía de o junto con.
Corpus desk
Index ES-amb · amb · Spanish
amb · rank #29,477 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,477
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH amarrado
Nearest frequency peer: amarrado (-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 “amb”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- altibajos
altibajos
70,527 corpus weight
- alzarse
alzarse
70,526 corpus weight
- amarrado
amarrado
70,525 corpus weight
- amb
amb
70,524 corpus weight
- Américo
Américo
70,523 corpus weight
- anonymous
anonymous
70,522 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “amb” 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 | amb |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | [am] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “amb”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for amb is neighbouring look-alikes ("ay", "as", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced [am]. Frequency #29,477 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Con, en colaboración con, en compañía de o junto con.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for amb in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ay", "as", "an", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 amb, spelled A-M-B.
Definition
- 1Con, en colaboración con, en compañía de o junto con.
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).