erre

/[ˈere]/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#45,302

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

2

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

erre is aSpanishnoun. It means: Nombre de la letra r, decimonovena del alfabeto español y decimoctava del orden latino internacional, sobre todo referida a su sonido fuerte.. Pronounced [ˈere]. Often confused with ese and Eve.

Key facts for erre
PropertyValue
Headworderre
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈere]
Letters4
Frequency rank#45,302
Misspellings tracked2
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of erre in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for erre is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈere]. Corpus data places it at rank #45,302 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 2 documented wrong-spelling variants for erre, including "erer" and "rere". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ese", "Eve", "eye", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is erre, spelled E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nombre de la letra r, decimonovena del alfabeto español y decimoctava del orden latino internacional, sobre todo referida a su sonido fuerte..
  2. 2
    rr (duplicada) o dígrafo de «r» recibe el nombre de «erre doble» o el de «doble erre». Representa el sonido fuerte, vibrante múltiple, en posición intervocálica, como en hierro, infrarrojo..

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: erer,rere

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for erre

Misspelling Variants of "erre"

erer4rere4
Misspelling Variants of "erre"

Frequency rank: #45,302 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "erre"?
"erre" is spelled E-R-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈere].
What does "erre" mean?
As a noun, "erre" means: Nombre de la letra r, decimonovena del alfabeto español y decimoctava del orden latino internacional, sobre todo referida a su sonido fuerte..
What words are commonly confused with "erre"?
"erre" is commonly confused with "ese", "Eve", "eye". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "erre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "erre" is [ˈere]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "erre" come from?
"erre" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter E in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.