pad
[ˈpað̞]
The verdict
“pad” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,908) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,908
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Periférico táctil presente en las notebooks y otros dispositivos portátiles que permite el movimiento de un cursor sobre una interfaz gráfica; funciona como alternativa al mouse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pad · pad · Spanish
pad · rank #31,908 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,908
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH Padua
Nearest frequency peer: Padua (+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 “pad”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- observancia
observancia
68,097 corpus weight
- opaco
opaco
68,096 corpus weight
- pad
pad
68,093 corpus weight
- Padua
Padua
68,092 corpus weight
- Palomo
Palomo
68,090 corpus weight
- pampas
pampas
68,089 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “pad” 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 | pad |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpað̞] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “pad”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pad is neighbouring look-alikes ("PP", "pm", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈpað̞]. Frequency #31,908 among 6,028 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
pad doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PP", "pm", "po", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 pad, spelled P-A-D.
Definition
- 1Periférico táctil presente en las notebooks y otros dispositivos portátiles que permite el movimiento de un cursor sobre una interfaz gráfica; funciona como alternativa al mouse.
- 2En una placa de circuito impreso, terminación que se le da a la pista en forma de círculo, rectángulo, óvalo, gota o anillo y que sirve para soldar los terminales y pines de los componentes que se montan encima.
Synonyms
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).