ve
[ˈbe]
The verdict
“ve” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #463) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #463
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nombre de la letra v.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ve · ve · Spanish
ve · rank #463 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #463
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH siento
Nearest frequency peer: siento (-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 “ve”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- respecto
respecto
99,541 corpus weight
- segunda
segunda
99,540 corpus weight
- siento
siento
99,539 corpus weight
- ve
ve
99,538 corpus weight
- vivir
vivir
99,537 corpus weight
- capital
capital
99,536 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ve” 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 | ve |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbe] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ve”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ve is neighbouring look-alikes ("vi", "vez", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈbe]. Frequency #463 among 1,793 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Nombre de la letra v.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ve in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vi", "vez", "ver", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is ve, spelled V-E.
Definition
- 1Nombre de la letra v.
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.