peg
/ˈpeːk/
The verdict
“peg” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,850) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,850
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mutación dura del sustantivo masculino beg.
Corpus desk
Index ES-peg · peg · Spanish
peg · rank #49,850 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,850
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH patagónico
Nearest frequency peer: patagónico (-2 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 “peg”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- partirse
partirse
50,155 corpus weight
- partían
partían
50,154 corpus weight
- patagónico
patagónico
50,153 corpus weight
- peg
peg
50,151 corpus weight
- peines
peines
50,149 corpus weight
- peladas
peladas
50,148 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “peg” 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 | peg |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpeːk/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #49,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “peg”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for peg is neighbouring look-alikes ("PP", "pm", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈpeːk/. Frequency #49,850 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Mutación dura del sustantivo masculino beg.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for peg, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PP", "pm", "po", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is peg, spelled P-E-G.
Definition
- 1Mutación dura del sustantivo masculino beg.
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).