aver
[aˈβ̞e̞ɾ]
The verdict
“aver” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,288) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,288
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tener.
Corpus desk
Index ES-aver · aver · Spanish
aver · rank #15,288 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,288
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH avanzó
Nearest frequency peer: avanzó (-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 “aver”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- aura
aura
84,716 corpus weight
- Aurelio
Aurelio
84,715 corpus weight
- avanzó
avanzó
84,714 corpus weight
- aver
aver
84,713 corpus weight
- banquillo
banquillo
84,712 corpus weight
- bautismo
bautismo
84,711 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “aver” 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 | aver |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [aˈβ̞e̞ɾ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #15,288 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “aver”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aver is neighbouring look-alikes ("ayer", "Aves", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [aˈβ̞e̞ɾ]. Frequency #15,288 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Tener.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for aver, with forms such as "aevr", "averr", and "avver". 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, "ayer", "Aves", "azar", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 aver, spelled A-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Tener.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aevr
- averr
- avver
- vaer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aver - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "aver", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).