arre
[ˈare]
The verdict
“arre” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,490) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,490
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 2
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se usa para arrear, incitar a las bestias de carga o tiro a moverse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-arre · arre · Spanish
arre · rank #29,490 · 2 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,490
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 2 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH arquitectónic…
Nearest frequency peer: arquitectónicas (-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 “arre”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- aprobando
aprobando
70,514 corpus weight
- armaduras
armaduras
70,513 corpus weight
- arquitectón…
arquitectónicas
70,512 corpus weight
- arre
arre
70,511 corpus weight
- arrestan
arrestan
70,510 corpus weight
- arrojados
arrojados
70,509 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “arre” 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 | arre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈare] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #29,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 2 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “arre”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for arre is neighbouring look-alikes ("art", "ave", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ˈare]. Frequency #29,490 among 7,704 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 2 likely wrong-spelling variants for arre, including "arer" and "rare". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "art", "ave", "ars", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is arre, spelled A-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Se usa para arrear, incitar a las bestias de carga o tiro a moverse.
- 2Indica desaprobación.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arer
- rare
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arre - 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 "arre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).