ore
[ˈoɾe]
The verdict
“ore” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,435) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,435
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de orar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ore · ore · Spanish
ore · rank #40,435 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,435
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH oren
Nearest frequency peer: oren (+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 “ore”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Olaya
Olaya
59,571 corpus weight
- olvidarán
olvidarán
59,570 corpus weight
- opcionales
opcionales
59,568 corpus weight
- ore
ore
59,566 corpus weight
- oren
oren
59,565 corpus weight
- orquestado
orquestado
59,564 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ore” 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 | ore |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈoɾe] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ore”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ore is neighbouring look-alikes ("os", "oz", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈoɾe]. Frequency #40,435 among 1,467 “O” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
ore has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "oz", "ou", 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 is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is ore, spelled O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de orar.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de orar.
- 3Segunda persona del singular (usted) del imperativo de orar.
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).