peor
[peˈoɾ]
The verdict
“peor” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #515) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #515
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Comparativo irregular de malo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-peor · peor · Spanish
peor · rank #515 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #515
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH marzo
Nearest frequency peer: marzo (-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 “peor”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- encontrar
encontrar
99,489 corpus weight
- inglés
inglés
99,488 corpus weight
- marzo
marzo
99,487 corpus weight
- peor
peor
99,486 corpus weight
- serie
serie
99,485 corpus weight
- sur
sur
99,484 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “peor” 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 | peor |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [peˈoɾ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “peor”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for peor is neighbouring look-alikes ("po", "por", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [peˈoɾ]. Frequency #515 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Comparativo irregular de malo.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for peor, with forms such as "epor", "peorr", and "poer". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "po", "por", "pro", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is peor, spelled P-E-O-R.
Definition
- 1Comparativo irregular de malo.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epor
- peorr
- poer
- ppeor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of peor - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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