il
[ˈil]
The verdict
“il” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,175) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,175
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Año.
Corpus desk
Index ES-il · il · Spanish
il · rank #7,175 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,175
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH homosexuales
Nearest frequency peer: homosexuales (-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 neighbourhood for “il”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- hierba
hierba
92,829 corpus weight
- homosexual
homosexual
92,828 corpus weight
- homosexuales
homosexuales
92,827 corpus weight
- il
il
92,826 corpus weight
- increíbles
increíbles
92,825 corpus weight
- inspector
inspector
92,824 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “il” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | il |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈil] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #7,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “il” en la frecuencia del español
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for il is neighbouring look-alikes ("ir", "is", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈil]. Frequency #7,175 among 3,428 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Año.".
il doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ir", "is", "it", 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 is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is il, spelled I-L.
Definition
- 1Año.
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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- "il" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "ir". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #7,175 among Spanish headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.