ocre
[ˈokɾe]
The verdict
“ocre” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,892) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,892
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Color amarillo oscuro, tirando ligeramente a café.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ocre · ocre · Spanish
ocre · rank #39,892 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,892
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH ocasionan
Nearest frequency peer: ocasionan (-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 “ocre”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- oak
oak
60,112 corpus weight
- obtendremos
obtendremos
60,111 corpus weight
- ocasionan
ocasionan
60,110 corpus weight
- ocre
ocre
60,109 corpus weight
- ocuparía
ocuparía
60,108 corpus weight
- ofreciera
ofreciera
60,107 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ocre” 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 | ocre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈokɾe] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #39,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ocre”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ocre is neighbouring look-alikes ("or", "oro", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [ˈokɾe]. Frequency #39,892 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Color amarillo oscuro, tirando ligeramente a café.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for ocre, with forms such as "occre", "ocer", and "orce". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "or", "oro", "oye", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 ocre, spelled O-C-R-E.
Definition
- 1Color amarillo oscuro, tirando ligeramente a café.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- occre
- ocer
- orce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ocre - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).