els
The verdict
“els” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #25,615) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,615
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grafía obsoleta de else.
Corpus desk
Index ES-els · els · Spanish
els · rank #25,615 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,615
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH Edison
Nearest frequency peer: Edison (-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 “els”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Edimburgo
Edimburgo
74,388 corpus weight
- Edison
Edison
74,387 corpus weight
- els
els
74,386 corpus weight
- emblemáticos
emblemáticos
74,385 corpus weight
- eminencia
eminencia
74,384 corpus weight
- empero
empero
74,383 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “els” 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 | els |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #25,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “els”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for els is neighbouring look-alikes ("en", "ex", …), not just typos; it is anadverb. Frequency #25,615 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Grafía obsoleta de else.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for els in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "en", "ex", "et", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is els, spelled E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Grafía obsoleta de else.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how els appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Now, as Engliſh may be ſaid to be nothing els but Dutch inlayed with French , ſo the Caſtilian Toung is nothing els but Latin inlayed with Moriſco words ; But the difference is, that the Engliſh is made the ſmoother by aſſocatiation ſhee hath with the French, But the Caſtilian Toung is grown more rugged by the admiſion and mixture of the Moriſco words, wh…
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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