ne
The verdict
“ne” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,998) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,998
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,151
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - No.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ne · ne · Spanish
ne · rank #8,998 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,998
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,151
- PHOTO-FINISH nacen
Nearest frequency peer: nacen (-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 “ne”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- monumental
monumental
91,007 corpus weight
- mortalidad
mortalidad
91,006 corpus weight
- nacen
nacen
91,004 corpus weight
- ne
ne
91,003 corpus weight
- Nigeria
Nigeria
91,001 corpus weight
- nocturna
nocturna
91,000 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ne” 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 | ne |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #8,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ne”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ne is neighbouring look-alikes ("no", "ny", …), not just typos; it is anadverb. Frequency #8,998 among 1,151 “N” headwords. Gloss: "No.".
ne doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "no", "ny", "nm", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is ne, spelled N-E.
Definition
- 1No.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
ne zeuio ket «no viene».
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.