g
[ˈxe]
The verdict
“g” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,315) as a character. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,315
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Séptima letra del alfabeto español y quinta consonante. Su nombre es ge.
Corpus desk
Index ES-g · g · Spanish
g · rank #1,315 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,315
- LEN-SHORT 1 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH golpe
Nearest frequency peer: golpe (+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 “g”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- escena
escena
98,689 corpus weight
- estructura
estructura
98,688 corpus weight
- g
g
98,686 corpus weight
- golpe
golpe
98,685 corpus weight
- grado
grado
98,684 corpus weight
- hacemos
hacemos
98,683 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “g” 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 | g |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Character |
| IPA | [ˈxe] |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #1,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “g”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for g is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "gr", …), not just typos; it is acharacter pronounced [ˈxe]. Frequency #1,315 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Séptima letra del alfabeto español y quinta consonante. Su nombre es ge.".
g has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "gr", "ge", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is g, spelled G.
Definition
- 1Séptima letra del alfabeto español y quinta consonante. Su nombre es ge.
This word in other languages
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.