ese
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#84
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ese is aSpanishnoun. It means: Nombre de la letra s. Pronounced [ˈese]. It ranks #84 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ex and et.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ese |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈese] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #84 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ese is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈese]. Corpus data places it at rank #84 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ese in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 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 ese, spelled E-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nombre de la letra s.
- 2Rastro, huella o rumbo que por sus revueltas semeja la figura de una s.
- 3Pieza de maquinaria en forma de s.
- 4Eslabón de una cadena que tiene forma de ese.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #84 in Spanish
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