bab
[ˈbɑːp]
The verdict
“bab” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,147) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,147
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mutación suave del sustantivo masculino pab ('papa').
Corpus desk
Index ES-bab · bab · Spanish
bab · rank #45,147 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,147
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH ayudaste
Nearest frequency peer: ayudaste (-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 “bab”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- ayo
ayo
54,856 corpus weight
- ayudaste
ayudaste
54,855 corpus weight
- bab
bab
54,854 corpus weight
- bac
bac
54,853 corpus weight
- bailen
bailen
54,852 corpus weight
- Baltazar
Baltazar
54,851 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “bab” 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 | bab |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbɑːp] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #45,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “bab”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bab is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "be", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈbɑːp]. Frequency #45,147 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Mutación suave del sustantivo masculino pab ('papa').".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bab, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "be", "bo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is bab, spelled B-A-B.
Definition
- 1Mutación suave del sustantivo masculino pab ('papa').
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).