au
[ˈaw]
The verdict
“au” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,821) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,821
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Indica dolor.
Corpus desk
Index ES-au · au · Spanish
au · rank #7,821 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,821
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH arrancar
Nearest frequency peer: arrancar (-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 “au”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Andy
Andy
92,184 corpus weight
- anónima
anónima
92,183 corpus weight
- arrancar
arrancar
92,181 corpus weight
- au
au
92,180 corpus weight
- aula
aula
92,179 corpus weight
- automático
automático
92,178 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “au” 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 | au |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈaw] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #7,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “au”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for au is neighbouring look-alikes ("ay", "av", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ˈaw]. Frequency #7,821 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Indica dolor.".
au doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ay", "av", "az", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is au, spelled A-U.
Definition
- 1Indica dolor.
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.