before
/bɪˈfɔː/
The verdict
“before” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #26,329. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,329
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Antes de.
Corpus desk
Index ES-before · before · Spanish
before · rank #26,329 · 9 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,329
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH battle
Nearest frequency peer: battle (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “before”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- bastaba
bastaba
73,675 corpus weight
- Batlle
Batlle
73,674 corpus weight
- battle
battle
73,673 corpus weight
- before
before
73,672 corpus weight
- being
being
73,671 corpus weight
- believe
believe
73,670 corpus weight
What this shows “before” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | before |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | /bɪˈfɔː/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “before”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around before (IPA /bɪˈfɔː/), apreposition. Corpus frequency is #26,329 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for before, with forms such as "bbefore", "beffore", and "befoer". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is before, spelled B-E-F-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Antes de.
- 2Antes que, delante de.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how before appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lead me, O Lord, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; Make Your way straight before my face
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbefore
- beffore
- befoer
- beforre
- befroe
- beofre
- bfeore
- ebfore
- vefore
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of before - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
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