ran
/ɹæn/
The verdict
“ran” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,290) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,290
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pasado simple (irregular) del verbo (to) run.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ran · ran · Spanish
ran · rank #24,290 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,290
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH reapertura
Nearest frequency peer: reapertura (+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 “ran”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- psíquica
psíquica
75,716 corpus weight
- puja
puja
75,715 corpus weight
- ran
ran
75,711 corpus weight
- reapertura
reapertura
75,710 corpus weight
- recibiría
recibiría
75,709 corpus weight
- recogieron
recogieron
75,708 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ran” 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 | ran |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɹæn/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ran”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ran is neighbouring look-alikes ("ro", "rr", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ɹæn/. Frequency #24,290 among 4,151 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Pasado simple (irregular) del verbo (to) run.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ran in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ro", "rr", "RM", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is ran, spelled R-A-N.
Definition
- 1Pasado simple (irregular) del verbo (to) run.
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 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).