tex
/ˈteʃ/
The verdict
“tex” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,421) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,421
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cuñado.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tex · tex · Spanish
tex · rank #27,421 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,421
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH temes
Nearest frequency peer: temes (-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 “tex”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- suspendidas
suspendidas
72,586 corpus weight
- temes
temes
72,581 corpus weight
- tex
tex
72,580 corpus weight
- titanio
titanio
72,579 corpus weight
- trading
trading
72,577 corpus weight
- traiciona
traiciona
72,575 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “tex” 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 | tex |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈteʃ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “tex”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tex is neighbouring look-alikes ("tú", "to", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈteʃ/. Frequency #27,421 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Cuñado.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tex, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tú", "to", "TV", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is tex, spelled T-E-X.
Definition
- 1Cuñado.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).