ben
[beːˀn]
The verdict
“ben” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,163) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,163
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hueso.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ben · ben · Spanish
ben · rank #3,163 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,163
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH basada
Nearest frequency peer: basada (-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 “ben”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- argumentos
argumentos
96,841 corpus weight
- Barrios
Barrios
96,840 corpus weight
- basada
basada
96,839 corpus weight
- ben
ben
96,838 corpus weight
- boda
boda
96,837 corpus weight
- chocolate
chocolate
96,836 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ben” 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 | ben |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [beːˀn] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ben”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ben is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [beːˀn]. Frequency #3,163 among 2,459 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
ben doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is ben, spelled B-E-N.
Definition
- 1Hueso.
- 2Pierna.
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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