az
[ɑz]
The verdict
“az” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,221) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,221
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poco.
Corpus desk
Index ES-az · az · Spanish
az · rank #31,221 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,221
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH ayudaban
Nearest frequency peer: ayudaban (-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 “az”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- avon
avon
68,782 corpus weight
- ayudaban
ayudaban
68,781 corpus weight
- az
az
68,780 corpus weight
- bailas
bailas
68,779 corpus weight
- Barceló
Barceló
68,778 corpus weight
- basto
basto
68,777 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “az” 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 | az |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ɑz] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #31,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “az”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for az is neighbouring look-alikes ("azul", "azar", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced [ɑz]. Frequency #31,221 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Poco.".
az has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "azul", "azar", "azur", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is az, spelled A-Z.
Definition
- 1Poco.
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.