c
[ˈse]
The verdict
“c” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #324) as a character. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #324
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Tercera letra del abecedario español y segunda consonante. Su nombre es ce.
Corpus desk
Index ES-c · c · Spanish
c · rank #324 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #324
- LEN-SHORT 1 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH vas
Nearest frequency peer: vas (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “c”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- primero
primero
99,680 corpus weight
- real
real
99,679 corpus weight
- vas
vas
99,678 corpus weight
- c
c
99,677 corpus weight
- cuatro
cuatro
99,676 corpus weight
- desarrollo
desarrollo
99,675 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “c” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | c |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Character |
| IPA | [ˈse] |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “c” sits in Spanish frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for c is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CC", …), not just typos; it is acharacter pronounced [ˈse]. Frequency #324 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Tercera letra del abecedario español y segunda consonante. Su nombre es ce.".
c has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CC", "ca", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is c, spelled C.
Definition
- 1Tercera letra del abecedario español y segunda consonante. Su nombre es ce.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.