amervsavecConfusable pair

Quick tell: amer is a adjective, avec is a preposition, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“amer” is an adjective and “avec” is a preposition - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#27,477
“amer” frequency rank
#40,148
“avec” frequency rank
67625
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature amer avec
Definition Amargo. Con, en colaboración con, en compañía de o junto con.

Where the eye mixes amer and avec

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. amer and avec follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
amer
4 ch
avec

Look-alike desk: amer vs avec

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: amer is [a.me] while avec is [a.vɛk]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs preposition), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67625, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

amer is recorded at frequency rank #27,477, classified as anadj, pronounced [a.me]. avec is at rank #40,148, tagged as aprep, pronounced [a.vɛk].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 67625, this pair ranks #36,653 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of amer vs avec

Shared letters: ae. Private to "amer": mr. Private to "avec": cv.

"amer" · 4 letters · shape VCVC  ·  "avec" · 4 letters · shape VCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • amer ← aemr · amerr · ammer
  • avec ← abec · aevc · avce · avecc · avvec · vaec

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "amer" and "avec" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "amer" is an adjective and "avec" a preposition, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "amer" or "avec" show up more?
"amer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,477 in our Spanish list, against #40,148 for "avec". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "amer" and "avec" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "amer" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "avec" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #36,653 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "amer" and "avec" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "abed vs avec". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #36,653 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list