spy
/spaɪ/
The verdict
“spy” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,092) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,092
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espía.
Corpus desk
Index ES-spy · spy · Spanish
spy · rank #48,092 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,092
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sportivo
Nearest frequency peer: sportivo (-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 “spy”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- somnolencia
somnolencia
51,914 corpus weight
- sospechando
sospechando
51,912 corpus weight
- sotana
sotana
51,911 corpus weight
- sportivo
sportivo
51,910 corpus weight
- spy
spy
51,909 corpus weight
- sumergidas
sumergidas
51,904 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “spy” 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 | spy |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /spaɪ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #48,092 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “spy”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for spy is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "st", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /spaɪ/. Frequency #48,092 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Espía.".
No misspelling variants are generated for spy in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "st", "sy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is spy, spelled S-P-Y.
Definition
- 1Espía.
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
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).