gin
[ˈʝĩn]
The verdict
“gin” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,870) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,870
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bebida alcohólica elaborada a partir de un destilado mezclado con frutos de enebro y un conjunto variable de hierbas aromáticas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-gin · gin · Spanish
gin · rank #26,870 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,870
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH Genaro
Nearest frequency peer: Genaro (-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 “gin”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- ganchos
ganchos
73,135 corpus weight
- Genaro
Genaro
73,132 corpus weight
- gin
gin
73,131 corpus weight
- Giorgio
Giorgio
73,130 corpus weight
- Girón
Girón
73,129 corpus weight
- glee
glee
73,128 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “gin” 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 | gin |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʝĩn] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “gin”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gin is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "gr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈʝĩn]. Frequency #26,870 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Bebida alcohólica elaborada a partir de un destilado mezclado con frutos de enebro y un conjunto variable de hierbas aromáticas.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gin, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "gr", "gu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is gin, spelled G-I-N.
Definition
- 1Bebida alcohólica elaborada a partir de un destilado mezclado con frutos de enebro y un conjunto variable de hierbas aromáticas.
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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