ort
[ɔɾˠt̪ˠ]
The verdict
“ort” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,156) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,156
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma combinada de la preposición ar y el pronombre personal de segunda persona singular.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ort · ort · Spanish
ort · rank #43,156 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,156
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH orquestada
Nearest frequency peer: orquestada (-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 “ort”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- ocultaron
ocultaron
56,849 corpus weight
- opongan
opongan
56,847 corpus weight
- orquestada
orquestada
56,846 corpus weight
- ort
ort
56,845 corpus weight
- ow
ow
56,844 corpus weight
- paladín
paladín
56,842 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ort” 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 | ort |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | [ɔɾˠt̪ˠ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ort”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ort is neighbouring look-alikes ("os", "oz", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced [ɔɾˠt̪ˠ]. Frequency #43,156 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Forma combinada de la preposición ar y el pronombre personal de segunda persona singular.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ort, 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is ort, spelled O-R-T.
Definition
- 1Forma combinada de la preposición ar y el pronombre personal de segunda persona singular.
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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