tell
[teʎ]
The verdict
“tell” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,207) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,207
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tilo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tell · tell · Spanish
tell · rank #22,207 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,207
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tardará
Nearest frequency peer: tardará (-2 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 “tell”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- surja
surja
77,799 corpus weight
- sándwich
sándwich
77,798 corpus weight
- tardará
tardará
77,796 corpus weight
- tell
tell
77,794 corpus weight
- terminados
terminados
77,791 corpus weight
- terminaste
terminaste
77,790 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “tell” 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 | tell |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [teʎ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #22,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “tell”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tell is neighbouring look-alikes ("ten", "ter", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [teʎ]. Frequency #22,207 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Tilo.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for tell, with forms such as "etll", "tlel", and "ttell". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ten", "ter", "teo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is tell, spelled T-E-L-L.
Definition
- 1Tilo.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etll
- tlel
- ttell
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tell - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).