# els vs est

> Spanish confusable word pair

## The two words

### els
*adverb · frequency rank #25,615*
Grafía obsoleta de else.

### est
*adjective · IPA [ɛst] · frequency rank #5,957*
Este.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/es/vs/els-vs-est