we
[wiː]
The verdict
“we” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,294) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,294
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 230
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nosotros, pronombre personal de primera persona plural.
Corpus desk
Index ES-we · we · Spanish
we · rank #4,294 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,294
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 230
- PHOTO-FINISH Víctor
Nearest frequency peer: Víctor (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “we”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- turistas
turistas
95,711 corpus weight
- viejas
viejas
95,710 corpus weight
- vital
vital
95,709 corpus weight
- Víctor
Víctor
95,708 corpus weight
- we
we
95,707 corpus weight
- adolescente
adolescente
95,704 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “we” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | we |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [wiː] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #4,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “we” en la frecuencia del español
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for we is neighbouring look-alikes ("wo", "web", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced [wiː]. Frequency #4,294 among 230 “W” headwords. Gloss: "Nosotros, pronombre personal de primera persona plural.".
we doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wo", "web", "wow", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is we, spelled W-E.
Definition
- 1Nosotros, pronombre personal de primera persona plural.
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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- "we" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "wo". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #4,294 among Spanish headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.