uno
/ˈuː.noʊ/
"uno" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“uno” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,255) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,255
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A term said when the number of cards in player’s hand is reduced to one. If another player says this before the one whose hand contains only one card, the player who failed to say 'uno' must draw t...
Corpus desk
Index EN-uno · uno · English
uno · rank #20,255 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,255
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH unmanned
Nearest frequency peer: unmanned (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “uno”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- unexplained
unexplained
79,749 corpus weight
- unintended
unintended
79,748 corpus weight
- unmanned
unmanned
79,747 corpus weight
- uno
uno
79,746 corpus weight
- unsolved
unsolved
79,745 corpus weight
- unsuccessfu…
unsuccessfully
79,744 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “uno” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uno |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /ˈuː.noʊ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “uno”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for uno is neighbouring look-alikes ("up", "us", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced /ˈuː.noʊ/. Frequency #20,255 among 1,433 “U” headwords. Gloss: "A term said when the number of cards in player’s hand is reduced to one. If another player says this before the one whose hand contains only one card, the player who failed to say 'uno' must draw t...".
uno doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "up", "us", "ur", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: PIE word *h₁óynos Learned borrowing from Spanish uno m (“one”, numeral). The correct English form is uno, spelled U-N-O.
Definition
- 1A term said when the number of cards in player’s hand is reduced to one. If another player says this before the one whose hand contains only one card, the player who failed to say 'uno' must draw two cards.
Etymology
PIE word *h₁óynos Learned borrowing from Spanish uno m (“one”, numeral).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).