ell
[eɫ]
The verdict
“ell” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,191) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,191
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Codo; antigua medida inglesa especialmente utilizada para medir telas que equivalía a 114,3 centímetros (45 pulgadas).
Corpus desk
Index ES-ell · ell · Spanish
ell · rank #39,191 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,191
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH ejemplifica
Nearest frequency peer: ejemplifica (-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 “ell”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- educan
educan
60,814 corpus weight
- egreso
egreso
60,812 corpus weight
- ejemplifica
ejemplifica
60,811 corpus weight
- ell
ell
60,810 corpus weight
- emoji
emoji
60,809 corpus weight
- empobrecido
empobrecido
60,807 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ell” 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 | ell |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eɫ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ell”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ell is neighbouring look-alikes ("en", "ex", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [eɫ]. Frequency #39,191 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Codo; antigua medida inglesa especialmente utilizada para medir telas que equivalía a 114,3 centímetros (45 pulgadas).".
Zero misspellings are on record for ell in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "en", "ex", "et", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is ell, spelled E-L-L.
Definition
- 1Codo; antigua medida inglesa especialmente utilizada para medir telas que equivalía a 114,3 centímetros (45 pulgadas).
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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