dog
[ˈdoːk]
The verdict
“dog” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,318) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,318
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mutación suave del sustantivo masculino tog ('sombrero')
Corpus desk
Index ES-dog · dog · Spanish
dog · rank #16,318 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,318
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH discrepancias
Nearest frequency peer: discrepancias (-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 “dog”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- deseada
deseada
83,687 corpus weight
- desempleados
desempleados
83,686 corpus weight
- diligencia
diligencia
83,685 corpus weight
- discrepanci…
discrepancias
83,684 corpus weight
- dog
dog
83,683 corpus weight
- dual
dual
83,682 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “dog” 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 | dog |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈdoːk] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “dog”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dog is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dos", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈdoːk]. Frequency #16,318 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Mutación suave del sustantivo masculino tog ('sombrero')".
Zero misspellings are on record for dog in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dos", "don", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 dog, spelled D-O-G.
Definition
- 1Mutación suave del sustantivo masculino tog ('sombrero')
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).