car
[ˈkaɾ]
The verdict
“car” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,462) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,462
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Extremo inferior del mástil al que se asegura la vela en las embarcaciones de vela latina.
Corpus desk
Index ES-car · car · Spanish
car · rank #10,462 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,462
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cantan
Nearest frequency peer: cantan (-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 “car”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- box
box
89,542 corpus weight
- bue
bue
89,541 corpus weight
- cantan
cantan
89,540 corpus weight
- car
car
89,539 corpus weight
- carnet
carnet
89,538 corpus weight
- chinas
chinas
89,537 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “car” 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 | car |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “car” en la frecuencia del español
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for car is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CC", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈkaɾ]. Frequency #10,462 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Extremo inferior del mástil al que se asegura la vela en las embarcaciones de vela latina.".
No misspelling variants are generated for car in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CC", "CD", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 car, spelled C-A-R.
Definition
- 1Extremo inferior del mástil al que se asegura la vela en las embarcaciones de vela latina.
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).
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- "car" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "co". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #10,462 among Spanish headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.