rey
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#492
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rey is aSpanishnoun. It means: Monarca soberano de un reino. Pronounced [ˈrej]. It ranks #492 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ro and rr.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rey |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈrej] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #492 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for rey is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈrej]. Corpus data places it at rank #492 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for rey in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is rey, spelled R-E-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Monarca soberano de un reino.
- 2(♔, ♚) Trebejo del ajedrez, de movimiento limitado pero máximo valor, puesto que la imposibilidad de defenderlo acarrea la derrota.
- 3Naipe que lleva la figura de un rey₁, que vale 12 en la baraja española y 13 en la francesa.
- 4Persona o cosa de máxima calidad o importancia en algún aspecto.
- 5Persona que, en algunos juegos o celebraciones, desempeña el papel rector.
- 6Úsase como vocativo afectuoso.
- 7Antiguo paso de las danzas españolas^([definición imprecisa]).
- 8Persona que tiene por oficio o profesión cuidar cerdos.
- 9Entre algunas especies de insectos sociales, única hembra fecunda de la comunidad.
- 10(Gallus gallus) Macho de la gallina, de distintivo dimorfismo sexual que incluye una cresta roja en la cabeza y espolones en las patas.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #492 in Spanish
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