oír
[oˈiɾ]
The verdict
“oír” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,866) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,866
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 10,276
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Percibir sonidos con el oído.
Corpus desk
Index ES-oir · oír · Spanish
oír · rank #3,866 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,866
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 10,276
- PHOTO-FINISH pagan
Nearest frequency peer: pagan (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “oír”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- mecanismos
mecanismos
96,138 corpus weight
- moto
moto
96,137 corpus weight
- oír
oír
96,135 corpus weight
- pagan
pagan
96,134 corpus weight
- pagos
pagos
96,133 corpus weight
- pasamos
pasamos
96,132 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “oír” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | oír |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [oˈiɾ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,866 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “oír” sits in Spanish frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for oír is neighbouring look-alikes ("os", "ok", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [oˈiɾ]. Frequency #3,866 among 10,276 “O” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for oír, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. 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.
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 oír, spelled O-Í-R.
Definition
- 1Percibir sonidos con el oído.
- 2Escuchar las peticiones o advertencias de otra persona.
This word in other languages
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "oír", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.