ob
[ɔp]
The verdict
“ob” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,601) as a conjunction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,601
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Si.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ob · ob · Spanish
ob · rank #30,601 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,601
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH nórdico
Nearest frequency peer: nórdico (-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 “ob”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- nuera
nuera
69,403 corpus weight
- nuncio
nuncio
69,402 corpus weight
- nórdico
nórdico
69,401 corpus weight
- ob
ob
69,400 corpus weight
- ocurridas
ocurridas
69,399 corpus weight
- ojeada
ojeada
69,398 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ob” 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 | ob |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | [ɔp] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #30,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ob”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ob is neighbouring look-alikes ("os", "of", …), not just typos; it is aconjunction pronounced [ɔp]. Frequency #30,601 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Si.".
ob has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "of", "ok", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 ob, spelled O-B.
Definition
- 1Si.
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.