nea
/ˈne.a/
The verdict
“nea” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #37,744) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #37,744
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,151
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del nominativo plural de neon.
Corpus desk
Index ES-nea · nea · Spanish
nea · rank #37,744 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,744
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,151
- PHOTO-FINISH necesitáis
Nearest frequency peer: necesitáis (+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 “nea”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- mutilados
mutilados
62,260 corpus weight
- mutis
mutis
62,259 corpus weight
- nea
nea
62,257 corpus weight
- necesitáis
necesitáis
62,256 corpus weight
- neuronales
neuronales
62,254 corpus weight
- niñito
niñito
62,253 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “nea” 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 | nea |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈne.a/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #37,744 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “nea”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nea is neighbouring look-alikes ("no", "ny", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈne.a/. Frequency #37,744 among 1,151 “N” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for nea in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "no", "ny", "nm", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is nea, spelled N-E-A.
Definition
- 1Forma del nominativo plural de neon.
- 2Forma del acusativo plural de neon.
- 3Forma del vocativo plural de neon.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).