aux
/o/
The verdict
“aux” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,511) as a contraction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,511
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contracción de la preposición à y el artículo les; a las ; a los.
Corpus desk
Index ES-aux · aux · Spanish
aux · rank #32,511 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,511
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH atacaban
Nearest frequency peer: atacaban (-3 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 “aux”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- asistirá
asistirá
67,495 corpus weight
- asteroides
asteroides
67,494 corpus weight
- atacaban
atacaban
67,493 corpus weight
- aux
aux
67,490 corpus weight
- Baena
Baena
67,487 corpus weight
- balsas
balsas
67,486 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “aux” 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 | aux |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Contraction |
| IPA | /o/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,511 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “aux”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aux is neighbouring look-alikes ("ay", "av", …), not just typos; it is acontraction pronounced /o/. Frequency #32,511 among 7,704 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for aux, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ay", "av", "az", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is aux, spelled A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Contracción de la preposición à y el artículo les; a las ; a los.
- 2En.
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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