rei
[ˈrej]
The verdict
“rei” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,940) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,940
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grafía obsoleta de rey.
Corpus desk
Index ES-rei · rei · Spanish
rei · rank #14,940 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,940
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH refuerza
Nearest frequency peer: refuerza (-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 “rei”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- recuperando
recuperando
85,064 corpus weight
- refresco
refresco
85,063 corpus weight
- refuerza
refuerza
85,062 corpus weight
- rei
rei
85,061 corpus weight
- relajado
relajado
85,060 corpus weight
- report
report
85,058 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “rei” 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 | rei |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈrej] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “rei”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rei is neighbouring look-alikes ("ro", "rr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈrej]. Frequency #14,940 among 4,151 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Grafía obsoleta de rey.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rei, 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is rei, spelled R-E-I.
Definition
- 1Grafía obsoleta de rey.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rei appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Todo el sur estaba en armas/ por el rei i con Pareja.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).