dare
[ˈda.ɾe]
The verdict
“dare” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,096) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,096
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-dare · dare · Spanish
dare · rank #24,096 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,096
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH Danielle
Nearest frequency peer: Danielle (-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 “dare”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- cócteles
cócteles
75,908 corpus weight
- cósmica
cósmica
75,907 corpus weight
- Danielle
Danielle
75,906 corpus weight
- dare
dare
75,905 corpus weight
- dañan
dañan
75,904 corpus weight
- definirse
definirse
75,903 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “dare” 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 | dare |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈda.ɾe] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,096 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “dare”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dare is neighbouring look-alikes ("de", "das", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈda.ɾe]. Frequency #24,096 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Dar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for dare, with forms such as "daer", "darre", and "ddare". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "de", "das", "day", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 dare, spelled D-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Dar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- daer
- darre
- ddare
- drae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dare - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "dare", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).