reo
[ˈreo]
The verdict
“reo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,380) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,380
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acusado en juicio, especialmente el criminal.
Corpus desk
Index ES-reo · reo · Spanish
reo · rank #27,380 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,380
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH repetimos
Nearest frequency peer: repetimos (+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 “reo”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- reflejando
reflejando
72,624 corpus weight
- reflexivo
reflexivo
72,623 corpus weight
- reo
reo
72,621 corpus weight
- repetimos
repetimos
72,620 corpus weight
- representat…
representatividad
72,619 corpus weight
- resuelvan
resuelvan
72,618 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “reo” 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 | reo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈreo] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “reo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for reo is neighbouring look-alikes ("ro", "rr", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [ˈreo]. Frequency #27,380 among 4,151 “R” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for reo, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is reo, spelled R-E-O.
Definition
- 1Acusado en juicio, especialmente el criminal.
- 2Por extensión, condenado a pena de prisión u otra.
- 3Dicho de una persona, de gusto vulgar o inferior, y hábitos incultos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Uno de estos casos, muy ruidoso, fue la ejecución del caballerizo Amada, que mató, al parecer en legítima defensa, a su amo, el marqués de Cañete. Aunque sólo tenía órdenes menores, lo reclamaron las autoridades eclesiásticas con extremado ahínco; desde el cardenal primado, D. Baltasar de Moscoso, hasta el último clerizón, hicieron de esto una cuestión de…
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).