arm
/ɑːm/
The verdict
“arm” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,354) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,354
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Brazo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-arm · arm · Spanish
arm · rank #35,354 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,354
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH aristócratas
Nearest frequency peer: aristócratas (-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 “arm”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- aristócratas
aristócratas
64,648 corpus weight
- arm
arm
64,647 corpus weight
- arreglados
arreglados
64,646 corpus weight
- arribar
arribar
64,645 corpus weight
- asegurará
asegurará
64,644 corpus weight
- asemejan
asemejan
64,643 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “arm” 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 | arm |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɑːm/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #35,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “arm”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for arm is neighbouring look-alikes ("ay", "as", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ɑːm/. Frequency #35,354 among 7,704 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for arm in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ay", "as", "at", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 arm, spelled A-R-M.
Definition
- 1Brazo.
- 2Manga.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how arm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
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).