ban
[ˈbãn]
The verdict
“ban” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,171) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,171
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unidad monetaria de Moldavia, centésima parte de un leu.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ban · ban · Spanish
ban · rank #11,171 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,171
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH auriculares
Nearest frequency peer: auriculares (-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 “ban”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- asombroso
asombroso
88,833 corpus weight
- atletismo
atletismo
88,832 corpus weight
- auriculares
auriculares
88,831 corpus weight
- ban
ban
88,830 corpus weight
- bandeja
bandeja
88,829 corpus weight
- Barranquilla
Barranquilla
88,828 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ban” 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 | 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) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ban”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ban is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "be", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈbãn]. Frequency #11,171 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Gloss: "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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