rat
[ɹæt]
The verdict
“rat” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,577) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,577
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rata
Corpus desk
Index ES-rat · rat · Spanish
rat · rank #41,577 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,577
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH rastreando
Nearest frequency peer: rastreando (-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 “rat”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- quisiese
quisiese
58,428 corpus weight
- Ramones
Ramones
58,427 corpus weight
- rasero
rasero
58,426 corpus weight
- rastreando
rastreando
58,425 corpus weight
- rat
rat
58,424 corpus weight
- rebanadas
rebanadas
58,422 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “rat” 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 | rat |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɹæt] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #41,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “rat”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rat is neighbouring look-alikes ("ro", "rr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ɹæt]. Frequency #41,577 among 4,151 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Rata".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rat, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ro", "rr", "RM", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is rat, spelled R-A-T.
Definition
- 1Rata
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).