ban
[ˈbãn]
The verdict
“ban” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #11,171 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #11,171
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Unidad monetaria de Moldavia, centésima parte de un leu.
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 | ban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbãn] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ban” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ban is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbãn]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,171 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Unidad monetaria de Moldavia, centésima parte de un leu.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ban in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is ban, spelled B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Unidad monetaria de Moldavia, centésima parte de un leu.
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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Using “ban”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈbãn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “by” - see the side-by-side comparison. ban vs by
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.