Rea
[ˈrea]
The verdict
“Rea” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,137) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,137
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Diosa de la mitología griega, titánide hija de Urano y Gea, hermana y esposa de Crono, madre de Deméter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidón y Zeus. A menudo confundida con Cibeles.
Corpus desk
Index ES-rea · Rea · Spanish
Rea · rank #28,137 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,137
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH raven
Nearest frequency peer: raven (-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 “Rea”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- quejado
quejado
71,867 corpus weight
- rand
rand
71,866 corpus weight
- raven
raven
71,865 corpus weight
- Rea
Rea
71,864 corpus weight
- recepcionis…
recepcionista
71,863 corpus weight
- rectángulo
rectángulo
71,862 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “Rea” 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 | Rea |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈrea] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #28,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “Rea”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Rea is neighbouring look-alikes ("ro", "rr", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈrea]. Frequency #28,137 among 4,151 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Diosa de la mitología griega, titánide hija de Urano y Gea, hermana y esposa de Crono, madre de Deméter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidón y Zeus. A menudo confundida con Cibeles.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Rea in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is Rea, spelled R-E-A.
Definition
- 1Diosa de la mitología griega, titánide hija de Urano y Gea, hermana y esposa de Crono, madre de Deméter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidón y Zeus. A menudo confundida con Cibeles.
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).