Asu
[ˈasu]
The verdict
“Asu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,344) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,344
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apellido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-asu · Asu · Spanish
Asu · rank #46,344 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,344
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH atenderse
Nearest frequency peer: atenderse (+1 rank slots)
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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “Asu”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- asentadas
asentadas
53,661 corpus weight
- asimila
asimila
53,660 corpus weight
- asirios
asirios
53,659 corpus weight
- Asu
Asu
53,657 corpus weight
- atenderse
atenderse
53,656 corpus weight
- aterrorizad…
aterrorizados
53,655 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “Asu” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | Asu |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈasu] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #46,344 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “Asu”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Asu is neighbouring look-alikes ("ay", "at", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈasu]. Frequency #46,344 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Apellido.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Asu, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ay", "at", "av", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is Asu, spelled A-S-U.
Definition
- 1Apellido.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).