vale
[ˈbale]
The verdict
“vale” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #638. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #638
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Documento de pago o sustitución de algo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-vale · vale · Spanish
vale · rank #638 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #638
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH tenga
Nearest frequency peer: tenga (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “vale”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- resultados
resultados
99,366 corpus weight
- santa
santa
99,365 corpus weight
- tenga
tenga
99,364 corpus weight
- vale
vale
99,363 corpus weight
- acción
acción
99,362 corpus weight
- arte
arte
99,361 corpus weight
What this shows “vale” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | vale |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbale] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “vale”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around vale (IPA [ˈbale]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #638 among 1,793 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Documento de pago o sustitución de algo.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for vale, with forms such as "avle", "bale", and "vael". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ve", "van", "vas", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is vale, spelled V-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Documento de pago o sustitución de algo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avle
- bale
- vael
- vlae
- vvale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vale - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "vale", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).