ina
[ˈɪnˠə]
The verdict
“ina” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #37,663) as a contraction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #37,663
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contracción de la preposición in y el adjetivo posesivo a
Corpus desk
Index ES-ina · ina · Spanish
ina · rank #37,663 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,663
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH imputan
Nearest frequency peer: imputan (-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 “ina”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- ilimitadas
ilimitadas
62,340 corpus weight
- imputan
imputan
62,339 corpus weight
- ina
ina
62,338 corpus weight
- inclinados
inclinados
62,337 corpus weight
- incurrido
incurrido
62,336 corpus weight
- industry
industry
62,335 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ina” 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 | ina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Contraction |
| IPA | [ˈɪnˠə] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #37,663 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ina”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ina is neighbouring look-alikes ("ir", "is", …), not just typos; it is acontraction pronounced [ˈɪnˠə]. Frequency #37,663 among 3,428 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Contracción de la preposición in y el adjetivo posesivo a".
Zero misspellings are on record for ina in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ir", "is", "it", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is ina, spelled I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Contracción de la preposición in y el adjetivo posesivo a
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bhí fear bocht fadó ina chónaí ag Cluan Choscartha, agus chaill sé a mheabhair le huireasa agus le trioblóid agus le mór-ainnise, ag féachaint ar a leanaí óga agus a máthair in uireasa agus in mí-ádh.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).