ge
[ˈxe]
The verdict
“ge” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,116) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,116
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nombre de la letra g.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ge · ge · Spanish
ge · rank #16,116 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,116
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH gates
Nearest frequency peer: gates (-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 “ge”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- ganaría
ganaría
83,888 corpus weight
- gastando
gastando
83,887 corpus weight
- gates
gates
83,886 corpus weight
- ge
ge
83,885 corpus weight
- gerentes
gerentes
83,884 corpus weight
- gozo
gozo
83,882 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ge” 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 | ge |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈxe] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #16,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ge”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ge is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "gr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈxe]. Frequency #16,116 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Nombre de la letra g.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ge, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "gr", "gu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is ge, spelled G-E.
Definition
- 1Nombre de la letra g.
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.