raid
[ˈrajð̞]
The verdict
“raid” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,370) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,370
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Incursión o ataque realizado con rapidez y sin previo aviso por una fuerza militar o de seguridad.
Corpus desk
Index ES-raid · raid · Spanish
raid · rank #27,370 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,370
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH racionamiento
Nearest frequency peer: racionamiento (-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 “raid”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- quepa
quepa
72,634 corpus weight
- quirófano
quirófano
72,633 corpus weight
- racionamien…
racionamiento
72,632 corpus weight
- raid
raid
72,631 corpus weight
- recogía
recogía
72,630 corpus weight
- recorrieron
recorrieron
72,628 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “raid” 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 | raid |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈrajð̞] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27,370 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “raid”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for raid is neighbouring look-alikes ("red", "río", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈrajð̞]. Frequency #27,370 among 4,151 “R” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for raid, with forms such as "arid", "radi", and "raidd". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "red", "río", "ray", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is raid, spelled R-A-I-D.
Definition
- 1Incursión o ataque realizado con rapidez y sin previo aviso por una fuerza militar o de seguridad.
- 2Hecho o, más frecuentemente, seguidilla de hechos que se realizan breve y sorpresivamente.
- 3Competición deportiva de resistencia, generalmente de automóviles o motocicletas, extensa y de carácter hazañoso y excepcional por las dificultades que presenta.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how raid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Así las cosas, luego de su misión a Nueva York, el presidente y principal líder libertario comenzará su raid proselitista rumbo al 26 de octubre. En el comando de campaña hay quienes creen que podría llegar a recorrer cerca de 10 destinos diferentes para poder levantar los armados provinciales, que en su mayoría tiene postulantes que incursionan por prime…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arid
- radi
- raidd
- rraid
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of raid - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).