be
[ˈbe]
The verdict
“be” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,769) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,769
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nombre de la letra b.
Corpus desk
Index ES-be · be · Spanish
be · rank #4,769 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,769
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH añadir
Nearest frequency peer: añadir (-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 “be”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- asistente
asistente
95,235 corpus weight
- ayude
ayude
95,234 corpus weight
- añadir
añadir
95,233 corpus weight
- be
be
95,232 corpus weight
- Caen
Caen
95,231 corpus weight
- casco
casco
95,230 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “be” 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 | be |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbe] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #4,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “be”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for be is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈbe]. Frequency #4,769 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Nombre de la letra b.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for be, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bo", "bu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 be, spelled B-E.
Definition
- 1Nombre de la letra b.
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.