gel
[ˈxel]
The verdict
“gel” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,441) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,441
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suspensión coloidal de un sólido en un medio líquido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-gel · gel · Spanish
gel · rank #17,441 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,441
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH galaxias
Nearest frequency peer: galaxias (-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 “gel”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- frustrante
frustrante
82,564 corpus weight
- galaxias
galaxias
82,561 corpus weight
- gel
gel
82,560 corpus weight
- Giovanni
Giovanni
82,559 corpus weight
- guiado
guiado
82,558 corpus weight
- habilitado
habilitado
82,557 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “gel” 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 | gel |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈxel] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “gel”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gel is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "gr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈxel]. Frequency #17,441 among 1,728 “G” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gel, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "gr", "gu", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is gel, spelled G-E-L.
Definition
- 1Suspensión coloidal de un sólido en un medio líquido.
- 2En particular, gel₁ que se emplea como fijador para el cabello.
- 3En particular, gel₁ jabonoso que se emplea para la higiene personal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Para Wiegner el complejo arcilla es un gel silícico-alumínico, resultante de la mutua coagulación de los soles hidróxidos alumínico (positivo) y ácido silícico (negativo).
Por lo tanto, cabe afirmar, en conclusión, que el fibrinógeno se encuentra en la sangre en un estado equivalente á las soluciones coloideas, y que de la fase de sol pasa á la de gel transformándose en fibrina.
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.
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