IES
[ˈjes]
The verdict
“IES” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,019) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,019
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instituto de Educación Secundaria (España).
Corpus desk
Index ES-ies · IES · Spanish
IES · rank #21,019 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,019
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH ilícita
Nearest frequency peer: ilícita (+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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “IES”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
What this shows Bars place “IES” against nearest ranked Spanish headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | IES |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˈjes] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “IES” en la frecuencia del español
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for IES is neighbouring look-alikes ("ir", "ii", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ˈjes]. Frequency #21,019 among 3,428 “I” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for IES in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ir", "ii", "is", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is IES, spelled I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Instituto de Educación Secundaria (España).
- 2Instituto de Educación Superior (México).
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).