ave
[ˈaβ̞e]
The verdict
“ave” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,694) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,694
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Animal vertebrado, ovíparo, de respiración pulmonar y sangre de temperatura constante, pico córneo, cuerpo cubierto de plumas, con dos patas y dos alas aptas por lo común para el vuelo. En el estad...
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Index ES-ave · ave · Spanish
ave · rank #5,694 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,694
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH asistentes
Nearest frequency peer: asistentes (-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 “ave”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- anunciado
anunciado
94,309 corpus weight
- asistentes
asistentes
94,308 corpus weight
- ave
ave
94,307 corpus weight
- averiguar
averiguar
94,306 corpus weight
- besos
besos
94,305 corpus weight
- cansada
cansada
94,304 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ave” 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 | ave |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaβ̞e] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ave”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ave is neighbouring look-alikes ("ay", "az", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈaβ̞e]. Frequency #5,694 among 7,704 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for ave in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ay", "az", "aya", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is ave, spelled A-V-E.
Definition
- 1Animal vertebrado, ovíparo, de respiración pulmonar y sangre de temperatura constante, pico córneo, cuerpo cubierto de plumas, con dos patas y dos alas aptas por lo común para el vuelo. En el estado embrionario tiene amnios y alantoides
- 2Dícese de la carne de estos animales empleada como alimento, especialmente la de pollo, gallina, pato, pavo o perdiz.
This word in other languages
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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