Jess
/dʒɛs/
The verdict
“Jess” sits in 19 confusable pairs (corpus #31,857) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,857
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 645
- “J” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hipocorístico de Jesse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-jess · Jess · Spanish
Jess · rank #31,857 · 4 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,857
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 645
- PHOTO-FINISH Jaca
Nearest frequency peer: Jaca (-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 “Jess”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- invocación
invocación
68,148 corpus weight
- isleños
isleños
68,147 corpus weight
- Jaca
Jaca
68,145 corpus weight
- Jess
Jess
68,144 corpus weight
- jodes
jodes
68,143 corpus weight
- jornal
jornal
68,142 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “Jess” 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 | Jess |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dʒɛs/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #31,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “Jess”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Jess is neighbouring look-alikes ("jet", "jos", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /dʒɛs/. Frequency #31,857 among 645 “J” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Jess, with forms such as "ejss", "jes", and "jjess". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "jet", "jos", "jus", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is Jess, spelled J-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Hipocorístico de Jesse.
- 2Hipocorístico de Jessica o Jessamy.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ejss
- jes
- jjess
- jses
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Jess - 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 "Jess", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).