cor
[ˈkoɾ]
The verdict
“cor” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,954) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,954
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Corazón.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cor · cor · Spanish
cor · rank #21,954 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,954
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH convulsiones
Nearest frequency peer: convulsiones (-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 “cor”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- contrastes
contrastes
78,050 corpus weight
- convocan
convocan
78,049 corpus weight
- convulsiones
convulsiones
78,048 corpus weight
- cor
cor
78,047 corpus weight
- cortados
cortados
78,046 corpus weight
- cost
cost
78,045 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “cor” 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 | cor |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkoɾ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “cor”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cor is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "cu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈkoɾ]. Frequency #21,954 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Corazón.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cor, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "cu", "cup", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is cor, spelled C-O-R.
Definition
- 1Corazón.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).