ven
[ˈbẽn]
The verdict
“ven” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #730) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #730
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de venir.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ven · ven · Spanish
ven · rank #730 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #730
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH temas
Nearest frequency peer: temas (-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 “ven”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- primeros
primeros
99,274 corpus weight
- principales
principales
99,273 corpus weight
- temas
temas
99,272 corpus weight
- ven
ven
99,271 corpus weight
- éxito
éxito
99,270 corpus weight
- actividades
actividades
99,269 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ven” 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 | ven |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈbẽn] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ven”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ven is neighbouring look-alikes ("vi", "vez", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈbẽn]. Frequency #730 among 1,793 “V” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
ven doesn't appear in our generated misspelling 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, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is ven, spelled V-E-N.
Definition
- 1Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de venir.
- 2Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de ver.
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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