gem
[ˈjɛmː]
The verdict
“gem” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,343) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,343
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gema.
Corpus desk
Index ES-gem · gem · Spanish
gem · rank #45,343 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,343
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH gaseoso
Nearest frequency peer: gaseoso (-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 “gem”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- gaditano
gaditano
54,661 corpus weight
- garca
garca
54,660 corpus weight
- gaseoso
gaseoso
54,659 corpus weight
- gem
gem
54,658 corpus weight
- geolocaliza…
geolocalización
54,657 corpus weight
- Gonza
Gonza
54,655 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “gem” 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 | gem |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈjɛmː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #45,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “gem”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gem is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "gr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈjɛmː]. Frequency #45,343 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Gema.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gem, 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 gem, spelled G-E-M.
Definition
- 1Gema.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).