pagevspeleWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: page is a noun, pele is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“page” is a noun and “pele” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#11,102
“page” frequency rank
#48,579
“pele” frequency rank
59681
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature page pele
Definition Página Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de pelar.

Where the eye mixes page and pele

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

4 ch
page
4 ch
pele

Why the eye confuses page with pele

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: page is /peɪdʒ/ while pele is [ˈpele]. 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 (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59681, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

page is recorded at frequency rank #11,102, classified as anoun, pronounced /peɪdʒ/. pele is at rank #48,579, tagged as averb, pronounced [ˈpele].

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 59681, this pair ranks #61,745 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of page vs pele

Shared letters: ep. Private to "page": ag. Private to "pele": l.

"page" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "pele" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • pageapge · paeg · pagge · pgae · ppage
  • peleeple · peel · pelle · plee · ppele

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "page" and "pele" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "page" is a noun and "pele" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "page" or "pele" show up more?
"page" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,102 in our Spanish list, against #48,579 for "pele". 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 "page" and "pele" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "page" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "pele" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #61,745 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "page" and "pele" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pele vs pence". 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 #61,745 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