bean
[b̊ɛn]
The verdict
“bean” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,520) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,520
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mujer.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bean · bean · Spanish
bean · rank #32,520 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,520
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH beneficie
Nearest frequency peer: beneficie (+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 “bean”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- balsas
balsas
67,486 corpus weight
- bastos
bastos
67,483 corpus weight
- bean
bean
67,481 corpus weight
- beneficie
beneficie
67,480 corpus weight
- bocinas
bocinas
67,478 corpus weight
- bolcheviques
bolcheviques
67,477 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “bean” 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 | bean |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [b̊ɛn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #32,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “bean”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bean is neighbouring look-alikes ("ben", "bla", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [b̊ɛn]. Frequency #32,520 among 2,459 “B” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for bean, with forms such as "baen", "bbean", and "beann". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ben", "bla", "bin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is bean, spelled B-E-A-N.
Definition
- 1Mujer.
- 2Hembra.
- 3Esposa.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- baen
- bbean
- beann
- eban
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bean - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bean", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).