bad
/bæd/
The verdict
“bad” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,759) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,759
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Malo
Corpus desk
Index ES-bad · bad · Spanish
bad · rank #8,759 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,759
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH ayudo
Nearest frequency peer: ayudo (-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 “bad”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- ausente
ausente
91,245 corpus weight
- autónomo
autónomo
91,244 corpus weight
- ayudo
ayudo
91,243 corpus weight
- bad
bad
91,242 corpus weight
- batallón
batallón
91,241 corpus weight
- bonitos
bonitos
91,240 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “bad” 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 | bad |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /bæd/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “bad”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bad is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "be", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /bæd/. Frequency #8,759 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Malo".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bad, 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is bad, spelled B-A-D.
Definition
- 1Malo
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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