gas
[ˈgas]
The verdict
“gas” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,636) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,636
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sustancia con movilidad molecular perfecta y la propiedad de expansión ilimitada, en oposición a los sólidos y líquidos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-gas · gas · Spanish
gas · rank #1,636 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,636
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH Fuertes
Nearest frequency peer: Fuertes (-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 “gas”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- depende
depende
98,368 corpus weight
- distribución
distribución
98,367 corpus weight
- Fuertes
Fuertes
98,366 corpus weight
- gas
gas
98,365 corpus weight
- grave
grave
98,364 corpus weight
- hablo
hablo
98,363 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “gas” 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 | gas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgas] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “gas”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gas is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "gr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈgas]. Frequency #1,636 among 1,728 “G” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
gas doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is gas, spelled G-A-S.
Definition
- 1Sustancia con movilidad molecular perfecta y la propiedad de expansión ilimitada, en oposición a los sólidos y líquidos.
- 2Cualquier fluido o mezcla de fluidos gaseosos₁.
- 3Por antonomasia, los que se emplean como carburante en industria o para las cocinas domésticas.
- 4Por antonomasia, los que se producen en el sistema digestivo como subproducto de la digestión.
Synonyms
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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