ate
[ˈat̪e]
The verdict
“ate” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,677) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,677
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dulce de membrillo en forma de barra o bloque a modo de dulce seco.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ate · ate · Spanish
ate · rank #23,677 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,677
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH asquerosos
Nearest frequency peer: asquerosos (-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 “ate”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- asegurados
asegurados
76,327 corpus weight
- asoma
asoma
76,326 corpus weight
- asquerosos
asquerosos
76,325 corpus weight
- ate
ate
76,324 corpus weight
- audífonos
audífonos
76,323 corpus weight
- aumenten
aumenten
76,322 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ate” 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 | ate |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈat̪e] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ate”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ate is neighbouring look-alikes ("ay", "av", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈat̪e]. Frequency #23,677 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Dulce de membrillo en forma de barra o bloque a modo de dulce seco.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ate, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ay", "av", "au", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is ate, spelled A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Dulce de membrillo en forma de barra o bloque a modo de dulce seco.
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).