hale
[ˈale]
The verdict
“hale” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,395) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,395
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de halar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-hale · hale · Spanish
hale · rank #28,395 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,395
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH hablarán
Nearest frequency peer: hablarán (-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 “hale”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Guadalquivir
Guadalquivir
71,609 corpus weight
- habitaban
habitaban
71,608 corpus weight
- hablarán
hablarán
71,607 corpus weight
- hale
hale
71,606 corpus weight
- hectárea
hectárea
71,604 corpus weight
- Hilda
Hilda
71,602 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “hale” 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 | hale |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈale] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #28,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “hale”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hale is neighbouring look-alikes ("he", "hay", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈale]. Frequency #28,395 among 1,569 “H” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for hale, with forms such as "ahle", "hael", and "hhale". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "he", "hay", "han", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is hale, spelled H-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de halar.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de halar.
- 3Segunda persona del singular (usted) del imperativo de halar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahle
- hael
- hhale
- hlae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hale - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hale", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).