ray
/ɹeɪ/
The verdict
“ray” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,350) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,350
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rayo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ray · ray · Spanish
ray · rank #6,350 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,350
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH rata
Nearest frequency peer: rata (-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 “ray”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- pudimos
pudimos
93,654 corpus weight
- quema
quema
93,653 corpus weight
- rata
rata
93,652 corpus weight
- ray
ray
93,651 corpus weight
- recinto
recinto
93,650 corpus weight
- recorrer
recorrer
93,649 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ray” 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 | ray |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹeɪ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ray”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ray is neighbouring look-alikes ("ro", "rr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ɹeɪ/. Frequency #6,350 among 4,151 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Rayo.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ray in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is ray, spelled R-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Rayo.
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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