aún
[aˈũn]
The verdict
“aún” is in the everyday core of Spanish, ranked #240 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adverb.
- #240
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Indica que el hecho persiste en el presente, aunque pueda cambiar en lo sucesivo..
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 | aún |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [aˈũn] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aún” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for aún is 3 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈũn]. Corpus data places it at rank #240 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Indica que el hecho persiste en el presente, aunque pueda cambiar en lo sucesivo..".
No misspelling variants are generated for aún in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is aún, spelled A-Ú-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Indica que el hecho persiste en el presente, aunque pueda cambiar en lo sucesivo..
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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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Using “aún”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-Ú-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [aˈũn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “ay” - see the side-by-side comparison. aún vs ay
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