ras
[ˈras]
The verdict
“ras” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,658) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,658
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Igualdad de las cosas en la superficie de ellas, así como en su altura.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ras · ras · Spanish
ras · rank #18,658 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,658
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH ratificación
Nearest frequency peer: ratificación (+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 “ras”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Quevedo
Quevedo
81,346 corpus weight
- raciales
raciales
81,345 corpus weight
- ras
ras
81,343 corpus weight
- ratificación
ratificación
81,342 corpus weight
- realeza
realeza
81,341 corpus weight
- reclutar
reclutar
81,340 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ras” 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 | ras |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈras] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,658 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ras”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ras is neighbouring look-alikes ("ro", "rr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈras]. Frequency #18,658 among 4,151 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Igualdad de las cosas en la superficie de ellas, así como en su altura.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ras, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ro", "rr", "RM", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is ras, spelled R-A-S.
Definition
- 1Igualdad de las cosas en la superficie de ellas, así como en su altura.
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).