go
[ˈgo]
The verdict
“go” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,707) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,707
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Juego de tablero de origen chino, en que dos jugadores intentan ocupar el mayor espacio posible.
Corpus desk
Index ES-go · go · Spanish
go · rank #3,707 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,707
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH gabinete
Nearest frequency peer: gabinete (-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 “go”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- fiel
fiel
96,297 corpus weight
- fortuna
fortuna
96,296 corpus weight
- gabinete
gabinete
96,295 corpus weight
- go
go
96,294 corpus weight
- Guillermo
Guillermo
96,293 corpus weight
- gustado
gustado
96,292 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “go” 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 | go |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgo] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #3,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “go”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for go is neighbouring look-alikes ("gr", "gu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈgo]. Frequency #3,707 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Juego de tablero de origen chino, en que dos jugadores intentan ocupar el mayor espacio posible.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for go, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gr", "gu", "gol", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is go, spelled G-O.
Definition
- 1Juego de tablero de origen chino, en que dos jugadores intentan ocupar el mayor espacio posible.
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.