ena
/ˈe.na/
The verdict
“ena” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,197) as a contraction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,197
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contracción de la preposición en y el artículo la
Corpus desk
Index ES-ena · ena · Spanish
ena · rank #39,197 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,197
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH empuñadura
Nearest frequency peer: empuñadura (-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 “ena”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- empobrecido
empobrecido
60,807 corpus weight
- empujaron
empujaron
60,806 corpus weight
- empuñadura
empuñadura
60,805 corpus weight
- ena
ena
60,804 corpus weight
- encadenados
encadenados
60,803 corpus weight
- encarcelada
encarcelada
60,802 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ena” 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 | ena |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Contraction |
| IPA | /ˈe.na/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ena”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ena is neighbouring look-alikes ("ex", "et", …), not just typos; it is acontraction pronounced /ˈe.na/. Frequency #39,197 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Contracción de la preposición en y el artículo la".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ena, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ex", "et", "eu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is ena, spelled E-N-A.
Definition
- 1Contracción de la preposición en y el artículo la
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).