REM
[ˈrẽm]
The verdict
“REM” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,225) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,225
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fase del sueño durante la que suceden los ensueños más intensos. Durante esta fase, los ojos se mueven rápidamente y la actividad de las neuronas del cerebro se asemeja a la de cuando se está despi...
Corpus desk
Index ES-rem · REM · Spanish
REM · rank #35,225 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,225
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH relacione
Nearest frequency peer: relacione (-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 “REM”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- recaída
recaída
64,781 corpus weight
- recorría
recorría
64,780 corpus weight
- relacione
relacione
64,777 corpus weight
- REM
REM
64,776 corpus weight
- remolino
remolino
64,775 corpus weight
- represas
represas
64,772 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “REM” 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 | REM |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈrẽm] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #35,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “REM”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for REM is neighbouring look-alikes ("ro", "rr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈrẽm]. Frequency #35,225 among 4,151 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Fase del sueño durante la que suceden los ensueños más intensos. Durante esta fase, los ojos se mueven rápidamente y la actividad de las neuronas del cerebro se asemeja a la de cuando se está despi...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for REM, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is REM, spelled R-E-M.
Definition
- 1Fase del sueño durante la que suceden los ensueños más intensos. Durante esta fase, los ojos se mueven rápidamente y la actividad de las neuronas del cerebro se asemeja a la de cuando se está despierto.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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).