den
[ˈd̪ẽn]
The verdict
“den” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,020) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,020
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de dar o de darse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-den · den · Spanish
den · rank #2,020 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,020
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH cuerpos
Nearest frequency peer: cuerpos (-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 “den”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- convirtió
convirtió
97,984 corpus weight
- CREA
CREA
97,983 corpus weight
- cuerpos
cuerpos
97,982 corpus weight
- den
den
97,981 corpus weight
- diferencias
diferencias
97,980 corpus weight
- ejemplos
ejemplos
97,979 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “den” 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 | den |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈd̪ẽn] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “den”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for den is neighbouring look-alikes ("di", "do", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈd̪ẽn]. Frequency #2,020 among 4,885 “D” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for den in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "di", "do", "du", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 den, spelled D-E-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de dar o de darse.
- 2Segunda persona del plural (ustedes) del imperativo de dar.
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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