lex
[leːks]
The verdict
“lex” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,783) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,783
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Proyecto de ley presentado ante el pueblo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-lex · lex · Spanish
lex · rank #19,783 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,783
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH larvas
Nearest frequency peer: larvas (-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 “lex”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- jurista
jurista
80,223 corpus weight
- Kuwait
Kuwait
80,221 corpus weight
- laicos
laicos
80,220 corpus weight
- larvas
larvas
80,219 corpus weight
- lex
lex
80,218 corpus weight
- lógicas
lógicas
80,214 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “lex” 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 | lex |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [leːks] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “lex”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lex is neighbouring look-alikes ("lo", "li", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [leːks]. Frequency #19,783 among 2,069 “L” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lex, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lo", "li", "Lu", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is lex, spelled L-E-X.
Definition
- 1Proyecto de ley presentado ante el pueblo.
- 2Ley sancionada por el pueblo.
- 3Por extensión precepto, norma.
- 4Contrato, cláusula de contrato.
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).