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“banana” and “bananas” are a confusable Spanish pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,077
- “banana” frequency rank
- #29,504
- “bananas” frequency rank
- 43581
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | banana | bananas |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | (Musa acuminata, M. balbisiana, M. x paradisiaca) Grupo de plantas herbáceas, compuesto tanto por híbridos como por cultivares genéticamente puros de algunas especies de Musa, que se cultivan por su fruto, una falsa baya epígina de característica forma falcada consumida como alimento. Se cultivan en más de 130 países, desde el sudeste asiático de donde son nativas, hasta Oceanía y Sudamérica. No son árboles sino megaforbias perennes, con pseudotallo de hasta 7 m de altura y hojas que se cuentan entre las más grandes del reino vegetal. | Forma del plural de banana. |
Where the eye mixes banana and bananas
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. banana runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against bananas's 7 (CVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: banana vs bananas
A purely visual mix-up. banana ([baˈnana]) and bananas ([baˈnanas]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “banana” sits inside “bananas”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43581, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
banana is recorded at frequency rank #14,077, classified as anoun, pronounced [baˈnana]. bananas is at rank #29,504, tagged as anoun, pronounced [baˈnanas].
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 43581, this pair ranks #141,888 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of banana vs bananas
Shared letters: abn. Private to "banana": -. Private to "bananas": s.
"banana" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "bananas" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "banana" and "bananas" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "banana" or "bananas"?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "banana" and "bananas" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "banana" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "bananas" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #141,888 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "banana" and "bananas" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "balanzas vs bananas". 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 #141,888 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.