oil
/ɔɪl/
The verdict
“oil” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,916) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,916
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petróleo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-oil · oil · Spanish
oil · rank #15,916 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,916
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH ofrenda
Nearest frequency peer: ofrenda (-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 “oil”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- ocular
ocular
84,089 corpus weight
- océanos
océanos
84,087 corpus weight
- ofrenda
ofrenda
84,086 corpus weight
- oil
oil
84,085 corpus weight
- olvidaba
olvidaba
84,084 corpus weight
- orientar
orientar
84,081 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “oil” 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 | oil |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɔɪl/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “oil”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for oil is neighbouring look-alikes ("os", "ok", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ɔɪl/. Frequency #15,916 among 1,467 “O” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
oil has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "ok", "on", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 oil, spelled O-I-L.
Definition
- 1Petróleo.
- 2Aceite.
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).