VOR
[ˈboɾ]
The verdict
“VOR” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,352) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,352
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Radioayuda a la navegación que utilizan las aeronaves para seguir en vuelo una ruta preestablecida.
Corpus desk
Index ES-vor · VOR · Spanish
VOR · rank #49,352 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,352
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH vistosos
Nearest frequency peer: vistosos (-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 “VOR”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- villancico
villancico
50,652 corpus weight
- vistieron
vistieron
50,651 corpus weight
- vistosos
vistosos
50,650 corpus weight
- VOR
VOR
50,649 corpus weight
- vueltos
vueltos
50,648 corpus weight
- waka
waka
50,647 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “VOR” 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 | VOR |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˈboɾ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #49,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “VOR”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for VOR is neighbouring look-alikes ("voy", "vos", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ˈboɾ]. Frequency #49,352 among 1,793 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Radioayuda a la navegación que utilizan las aeronaves para seguir en vuelo una ruta preestablecida.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for VOR, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "voy", "vos", "voz", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is VOR, spelled V-O-R.
Definition
- 1Radioayuda a la navegación que utilizan las aeronaves para seguir en vuelo una ruta preestablecida.
This word in other languages
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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