tor
[ˈtoːr]
The verdict
“tor” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,720) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,720
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mutación dura del sustantivo femenino dor ('puerta').
Corpus desk
Index ES-tor · tor · Spanish
tor · rank #16,720 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,720
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH toallas
Nearest frequency peer: toallas (-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 “tor”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- theory
theory
83,284 corpus weight
- toallas
toallas
83,282 corpus weight
- tor
tor
83,281 corpus weight
- Torreón
Torreón
83,280 corpus weight
- traficantes
traficantes
83,279 corpus weight
- tuberías
tuberías
83,278 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “tor” 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 | tor |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtoːr] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “tor”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tor is neighbouring look-alikes ("tú", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈtoːr]. Frequency #16,720 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Mutación dura del sustantivo femenino dor ('puerta').".
Zero misspellings are on record for tor in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tú", "TV", "ty", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is tor, spelled T-O-R.
Definition
- 1Mutación dura del sustantivo femenino dor ('puerta').
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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