row
/ɹəʊ/
The verdict
“row” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,618) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,618
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fila, hilera
Corpus desk
Index ES-row · row · Spanish
row · rank #41,618 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,618
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH rompiera
Nearest frequency peer: rompiera (-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 “row”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Ripoll
Ripoll
58,386 corpus weight
- rompiera
rompiera
58,384 corpus weight
- row
row
58,383 corpus weight
- Rubin
Rubin
58,382 corpus weight
- rubor
rubor
58,381 corpus weight
- rédito
rédito
58,379 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “row” 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 | row |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹəʊ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #41,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “row”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for row is neighbouring look-alikes ("rr", "ru", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ɹəʊ/. Frequency #41,618 among 4,151 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Fila, hilera".
row doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is row, spelled R-O-W.
Definition
- 1Fila, hilera
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).