ski
/ski/
The verdict
“ski” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,760) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,760
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Esquí
Corpus desk
Index ES-ski · ski · Spanish
ski · rank #35,760 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,760
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH simplificada
Nearest frequency peer: simplificada (-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 “ski”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- sigilo
sigilo
64,245 corpus weight
- silbato
silbato
64,244 corpus weight
- simplificada
simplificada
64,242 corpus weight
- ski
ski
64,241 corpus weight
- solapa
solapa
64,239 corpus weight
- sometieron
sometieron
64,238 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ski” 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 | ski |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ski/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #35,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ski”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ski is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "so", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ski/. Frequency #35,760 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Esquí".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ski, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is ski, spelled S-K-I.
Definition
- 1Esquí
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ski", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).