got
/gɒt/
The verdict
“got” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,589) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,589
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pasado simple del verbo (to) get ('obtener').
Corpus desk
Index ES-got · got · Spanish
got · rank #11,589 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,589
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH grabados
Nearest frequency peer: grabados (+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 “got”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- ganados
ganados
88,415 corpus weight
- gerencia
gerencia
88,414 corpus weight
- got
got
88,412 corpus weight
- grabados
grabados
88,411 corpus weight
- guardan
guardan
88,410 corpus weight
- hito
hito
88,409 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “got” 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 | got |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /gɒt/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “got”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for got is neighbouring look-alikes ("gr", "gu", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /gɒt/. Frequency #11,589 among 1,728 “G” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
got doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gr", "gu", "GPS", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is got, spelled G-O-T.
Definition
- 1Pasado simple del verbo (to) get ('obtener').
- 2Participio pasado del verbo (to) get.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).