roe
[ˈroe]
The verdict
“roe” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,442) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,442
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de roer.
Corpus desk
Index ES-roe · roe · Spanish
roe · rank #39,442 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,442
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH rotar
Nearest frequency peer: rotar (+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 “roe”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- robaban
robaban
60,562 corpus weight
- robustos
robustos
60,561 corpus weight
- roe
roe
60,559 corpus weight
- rotar
rotar
60,558 corpus weight
- rozar
rozar
60,557 corpus weight
- sacerdotisa
sacerdotisa
60,556 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “roe” 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 | roe |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈroe] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “roe”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for roe is neighbouring look-alikes ("rr", "ru", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈroe]. Frequency #39,442 among 4,151 “R” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for roe, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rr", "ru", "Rx", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 roe, spelled R-O-E.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de roer.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de roer.
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).