# the vs these

> Spanish confusable word pair

## The two words

### the
*article · IPA /ˈðiː/ · frequency rank #314*
El, la, los, las.

### these
*pronoun · IPA /ðiːz/ · frequency rank #26,643*
Estos, estas, plural de this.

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