sim
/ˈsim/
The verdict
“sim” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,009) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,009
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular del presente activo de subjuntivo de sum.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sim · sim · Spanish
sim · rank #14,009 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,009
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH Sierras
Nearest frequency peer: Sierras (-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 “sim”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- sencillez
sencillez
85,995 corpus weight
- side
side
85,994 corpus weight
- Sierras
Sierras
85,993 corpus weight
- sim
sim
85,992 corpus weight
- situadas
situadas
85,991 corpus weight
- soda
soda
85,990 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “sim” 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 | sim |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈsim/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “sim”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sim is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "so", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ˈsim/. Frequency #14,009 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Primera persona del singular del presente activo de subjuntivo de sum.".
sim doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "so", "st", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 sim, spelled S-I-M.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular del presente activo de subjuntivo de sum.
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
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