ist
/ɪst/
The verdict
“ist” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,994) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,994
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (er, sie, es) del presente de indicativo de sein.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ist · ist · Spanish
ist · rank #41,994 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,994
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH irrepetible
Nearest frequency peer: irrepetible (-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 “ist”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- intangibles
intangibles
58,013 corpus weight
- inteligenci…
inteligencias
58,012 corpus weight
- interiormen…
interiormente
58,011 corpus weight
- interrumpid…
interrumpidas
58,010 corpus weight
- irrepetible
irrepetible
58,008 corpus weight
- ist
ist
58,007 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ist” 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 | ist |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɪst/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #41,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ist”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ist is neighbouring look-alikes ("it", "ix", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ɪst/. Frequency #41,994 among 3,428 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Tercera persona del singular (er, sie, es) del presente de indicativo de sein.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ist in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "it", "ix", "IU", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 ist, spelled I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (er, sie, es) del presente de indicativo de sein.
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).