val
[ˈbal]
The verdict
“val” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,070) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,070
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sinclinal de un pliegue del relieve jurásico.
Corpus desk
Index ES-val · val · Spanish
val · rank #12,070 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,070
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH ubicadas
Nearest frequency peer: ubicadas (-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 “val”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- tramos
tramos
87,934 corpus weight
- ubicadas
ubicadas
87,932 corpus weight
- val
val
87,931 corpus weight
- valenciano
valenciano
87,930 corpus weight
- viajado
viajado
87,929 corpus weight
- violador
violador
87,928 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “val” 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 | val |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbal] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “val”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for val is neighbouring look-alikes ("ve", "vi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈbal]. Frequency #12,070 among 1,793 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Sinclinal de un pliegue del relieve jurásico.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for val, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ve", "vi", "vez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is val, spelled V-A-L.
Definition
- 1Sinclinal de un pliegue del relieve jurásico.
Antonyms
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).