tie
[ˈt̪ie̞̯]
The verdict
“tie” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,530) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,530
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Camino
Corpus desk
Index ES-tie · tie · Spanish
tie · rank #22,530 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,530
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tests
Nearest frequency peer: tests (-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 “tie”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- tendréis
tendréis
77,474 corpus weight
- tests
tests
77,472 corpus weight
- tie
tie
77,471 corpus weight
- tirador
tirador
77,470 corpus weight
- topografía
topografía
77,469 corpus weight
- traería
traería
77,468 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “tie” 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 | tie |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ie̞̯] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “tie”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tie is neighbouring look-alikes ("tú", "to", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈt̪ie̞̯]. Frequency #22,530 among 3,005 “T” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for tie in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tú", "to", "TV", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is tie, spelled T-I-E.
Definition
- 1Camino
- 2Calle
- 3Ruta, vía
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).