arce
[ˈaɾse]
The verdict
“arce” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,186) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,186
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Acer spp.) Cualquiera de varias especies de árboles y arbustos del hemisferio norte, de características hojas opuestas, muchas veces palmatilobuladas. Florecen formando inflorescencias en racimos,...
Corpus desk
Index ES-arce · arce · Spanish
arce · rank #13,186 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,186
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH aplicadas
Nearest frequency peer: aplicadas (-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 “arce”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- apagado
apagado
86,818 corpus weight
- apariencias
apariencias
86,817 corpus weight
- aplicadas
aplicadas
86,816 corpus weight
- arce
arce
86,815 corpus weight
- Atlanta
Atlanta
86,814 corpus weight
- atrevo
atrevo
86,813 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “arce” 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 | arce |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaɾse] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “arce”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for arce is neighbouring look-alikes ("art", "ave", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈaɾse]. Frequency #13,186 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "(Acer spp.) Cualquiera de varias especies de árboles y arbustos del hemisferio norte, de características hojas opuestas, muchas veces palmatilobuladas. Florecen formando inflorescencias en racimos,...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for arce, with forms such as "arcce", "arec", and "arrce". 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, "art", "ave", "are", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is arce, spelled A-R-C-E.
Definition
- 1(Acer spp.) Cualquiera de varias especies de árboles y arbustos del hemisferio norte, de características hojas opuestas, muchas veces palmatilobuladas. Florecen formando inflorescencias en racimos, corimbos o umbelas de floros pentámeros, que fructifican en parejas de sámaras muy distintivas. Son una importante fuente de polen y néctar para la apicultura, y tienen varios usos comerciales, incluyendo el ornamental, la madera y la elaboración de jarabe. Es el árbol nacional de Canadá.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arcce
- arec
- arrce
- arse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arce - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).