bit
[ˈbit̪]
The verdict
“bit” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,402) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,402
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unidad mínima teórica de intercambio o almacenamiento de información, correspondiente a un dígito binario (cero o uno), que puede identificarse con un valor booleano (falso o verdadero).
Corpus desk
Index ES-bit · bit · Spanish
bit · rank #24,402 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,402
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH billón
Nearest frequency peer: billón (-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 “bit”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- bienvenidas
bienvenidas
75,602 corpus weight
- Billar
Billar
75,601 corpus weight
- billón
billón
75,600 corpus weight
- bit
bit
75,599 corpus weight
- bloquearon
bloquearon
75,598 corpus weight
- bucal
bucal
75,596 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “bit” 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 | bit |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbit̪] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “bit”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bit is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈbit̪]. Frequency #24,402 among 2,459 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bit, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bo", "bu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 bit, spelled B-I-T.
Definition
- 1Unidad mínima teórica de intercambio o almacenamiento de información, correspondiente a un dígito binario (cero o uno), que puede identificarse con un valor booleano (falso o verdadero).
- 2Espacio lógico necesario para almacenar un valor binario en una memoria de ordenador.
This word in other languages
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
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).