sec
[sɛk]
The verdict
“sec” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,813) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,813
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Seco
Corpus desk
Index ES-sec · sec · Spanish
sec · rank #17,813 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,813
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH Saúl
Nearest frequency peer: Saúl (-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 “sec”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- rotundo
rotundo
82,191 corpus weight
- sable
sable
82,190 corpus weight
- Saúl
Saúl
82,189 corpus weight
- sec
sec
82,188 corpus weight
- secuestrado…
secuestradores
82,187 corpus weight
- sensor
sensor
82,186 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “sec” 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 | sec |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [sɛk] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,813 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “sec”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sec is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "sí", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [sɛk]. Frequency #17,813 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Seco".
sec has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "sí", "so", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is sec, spelled S-E-C.
Definition
- 1Seco
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).