rum
[rʌm]
The verdict
“rum” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,680) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,680
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ron.
Corpus desk
Index ES-rum · rum · Spanish
rum · rank #42,680 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,680
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH role
Nearest frequency peer: role (-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 “rum”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- rocoso
rocoso
57,324 corpus weight
- roedor
roedor
57,323 corpus weight
- role
role
57,322 corpus weight
- rum
rum
57,321 corpus weight
- salinidad
salinidad
57,319 corpus weight
- saludaba
saludaba
57,318 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “rum” 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 | rum |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [rʌm] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #42,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “rum”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rum is neighbouring look-alikes ("Rx", "run", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [rʌm]. Frequency #42,680 among 4,151 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Ron.".
Zero misspellings are on record for rum in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rx", "run", "Rus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 rum, spelled R-U-M.
Definition
- 1Ron.
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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