tree
/tɹi/
The verdict
“tree” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,889) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,889
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Árbol.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tree · tree · Spanish
tree · rank #22,889 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,889
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH trasladada
Nearest frequency peer: trasladada (-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 “tree”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- transversal…
transversales
77,115 corpus weight
- traseras
traseras
77,114 corpus weight
- trasladada
trasladada
77,113 corpus weight
- tree
tree
77,112 corpus weight
- tónica
tónica
77,110 corpus weight
- unicornio
unicornio
77,109 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “tree” 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 | tree |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tɹi/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #22,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “tree”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tree is neighbouring look-alikes ("tri", "try", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /tɹi/. Frequency #22,889 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Árbol.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for tree, with forms such as "rtee", "trree", and "ttree". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tri", "try", "tro", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is tree, spelled T-R-E-E.
Definition
- 1Árbol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tree appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtee
- trree
- ttree
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tree - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tree", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).