on
[ˈon]
The verdict
“on” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,908) as a numeral. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,908
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Diez.
Corpus desk
Index ES-on · on · Spanish
on · rank #1,908 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,908
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH new
Nearest frequency peer: new (-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 “on”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- metro
metro
98,096 corpus weight
- Navidad
Navidad
98,095 corpus weight
- new
new
98,094 corpus weight
- on
on
98,093 corpus weight
- oportunidad…
oportunidades
98,092 corpus weight
- perros
perros
98,091 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “on” 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 | on |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | [ˈon] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #1,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “on”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for on is neighbouring look-alikes ("os", "or", …), not just typos; it is anumeral pronounced [ˈon]. Frequency #1,908 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Diez.".
No misspelling variants are generated for on in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "or", "oz", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is on, spelled O-N.
Definition
- 1Diez.
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.