big
/bɪɡ/
The verdict
“big” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,398) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,398
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gran, grande.
Corpus desk
Index ES-big · big · Spanish
big · rank #4,398 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,398
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH barcos
Nearest frequency peer: barcos (-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 “big”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- ayudas
ayudas
95,606 corpus weight
- añade
añade
95,605 corpus weight
- barcos
barcos
95,604 corpus weight
- big
big
95,603 corpus weight
- ca
ca
95,602 corpus weight
- captura
captura
95,601 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “big” 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 | big |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /bɪɡ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “big”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for big is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bo", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /bɪɡ/. Frequency #4,398 among 2,459 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
big doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bo", "bu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is big, spelled B-I-G.
Definition
- 1Gran, grande.
- 2Popular, importante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how big appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The TV show became big very quickly; everyone was talking about it.
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 "big", not the corpus desk frequency band.