gan
The verdict
“gan” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,864) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,864
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De, desde.
Corpus desk
Index ES-gan · gan · Spanish
gan · rank #26,864 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,864
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH galas
Nearest frequency peer: galas (-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 “gan”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- friki
friki
73,141 corpus weight
- fundamenta
fundamenta
73,140 corpus weight
- fósil
fósil
73,139 corpus weight
- galas
galas
73,138 corpus weight
- gan
gan
73,137 corpus weight
- ganchos
ganchos
73,135 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “gan” 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 | gan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “gan”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gan is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "gr", …), not just typos; it is apreposition. Frequency #26,864 among 1,728 “G” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gan, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "gr", "ge", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is gan, spelled G-A-N.
Definition
- 1De, desde.
- 2Indica posesión; con.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mae gen i gath.
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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