bee
/biː/
The verdict
“bee” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,989) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,989
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abeja.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bee · bee · Spanish
bee · rank #32,989 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,989
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH bautizada
Nearest frequency peer: bautizada (-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 “bee”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Basilea
Basilea
67,014 corpus weight
- bautizada
bautizada
67,013 corpus weight
- bee
bee
67,012 corpus weight
- bellísimo
bellísimo
67,011 corpus weight
- beneficien
beneficien
67,010 corpus weight
- Berenguer
Berenguer
67,009 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “bee” 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 | bee |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /biː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,989 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “bee”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bee is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /biː/. Frequency #32,989 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Abeja.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bee in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bo", "bu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is bee, spelled B-E-E.
Definition
- 1Abeja.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).