Vos
"vos" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Vos” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,077) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,077
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Dutch.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vos · Vos · English
Vos · rank #33,077 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,077
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH virtuoso
Nearest frequency peer: virtuoso (-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 “Vos”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- villager
villager
66,927 corpus weight
- virtuoso
virtuoso
66,925 corpus weight
- Vos
Vos
66,924 corpus weight
- wail
wail
66,923 corpus weight
- Watertown
Watertown
66,922 corpus weight
- wedged
wedged
66,921 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “Vos” 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 | Vos |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “Vos”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Vos is neighbouring look-alikes ("VR", "VP", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #33,077 among 969 “V” headwords. Gloss: "A surname from Dutch.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Vos in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "VR", "VP", "VW", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Dutch Vos. Doublet of Fox and Fuchs. The correct English form is Vos, spelled V-O-S.
Definition
- 1A surname from Dutch.
Etymology
From Dutch Vos. Doublet of Fox and Fuchs.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).