set
[ˈset̪]
The verdict
“set” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,460) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,460
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Subdivisión del partido o match, la cual se obtiene ganando 6 juegos o games (con diferencia de dos o con tie break en su defecto).
Corpus desk
Index ES-set · set · Spanish
set · rank #6,460 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,460
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sesenta
Nearest frequency peer: sesenta (-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 “set”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- ruinas
ruinas
93,544 corpus weight
- sacaron
sacaron
93,543 corpus weight
- sesenta
sesenta
93,542 corpus weight
- set
set
93,541 corpus weight
- solicitudes
solicitudes
93,540 corpus weight
- sorprendió
sorprendió
93,539 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “set” 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 | set |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈset̪] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “set”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for set is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "sí", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈset̪]. Frequency #6,460 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Subdivisión del partido o match, la cual se obtiene ganando 6 juegos o games (con diferencia de dos o con tie break en su defecto).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for set, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "sí", "so", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is set, spelled S-E-T.
Definition
- 1Subdivisión del partido o match, la cual se obtiene ganando 6 juegos o games (con diferencia de dos o con tie break en su defecto).
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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