gol
[ˈgol]
The verdict
“gol” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,399) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,399
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción que es la meta de varios deportes de equipo, tales como el fútbol o el hockey. Consiste básicamente en hacer que una pelota cruce una línea o entre en una portería defendida por el equipo co...
Corpus desk
Index ES-gol · gol · Spanish
gol · rank #2,399 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,399
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH generar
Nearest frequency peer: generar (-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 “gol”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- enviar
enviar
97,605 corpus weight
- extremo
extremo
97,604 corpus weight
- generar
generar
97,603 corpus weight
- gol
gol
97,602 corpus weight
- inferior
inferior
97,601 corpus weight
- Mario
Mario
97,600 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “gol” 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 | gol |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgol] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “gol”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gol is neighbouring look-alikes ("gr", "gu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈgol]. Frequency #2,399 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Acción que es la meta de varios deportes de equipo, tales como el fútbol o el hockey. Consiste básicamente en hacer que una pelota cruce una línea o entre en una portería defendida por el equipo co...".
gol has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gr", "gu", "GPS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is gol, spelled G-O-L.
Definition
- 1Acción que es la meta de varios deportes de equipo, tales como el fútbol o el hockey. Consiste básicamente en hacer que una pelota cruce una línea o entre en una portería defendida por el equipo contrario. Habitualmente, cada gol vale un punto.
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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