río
[ˈrio]
The verdict
“río” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #698) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #698
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Corriente de agua de caudal importante que discurre por tierra desde un manantial, una masa de hielos o un lago.
Corpus desk
Index ES-rio · río · Spanish
río · rank #698 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #698
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH red
Nearest frequency peer: red (-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 “río”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- provincia
provincia
99,306 corpus weight
- recursos
recursos
99,305 corpus weight
- red
red
99,304 corpus weight
- río
río
99,303 corpus weight
- ah
ah
99,302 corpus weight
- aquellos
aquellos
99,301 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “río” 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 | río |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈrio] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “río”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for río is neighbouring look-alikes ("ro", "rr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈrio]. Frequency #698 among 4,151 “R” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for río in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is río, spelled R-Í-O.
Definition
- 1Corriente de agua de caudal importante que discurre por tierra desde un manantial, una masa de hielos o un lago.
- 2Por extensión, cantidad generosa de cualquier líquido.
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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