User blog comment:Godisme/Light of Happiness/@comment-5453788-20120529121616/@comment-893506-20120529173741

To that end, I'm pretty sure he said that Arrancar numbers ranked 10 or higher were Espada. I don't think he ever said directly "the Espada ranks from 1 to 10". While easily confusable, given how close the wording is, they can (and obviously do at this point) mean different things.