coo
[ˈko]
The verdict
“coo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,681) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,681
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Strix rufipes) Ave rapaz nocturna estrigiforme con rayas alternadas entre gris y blanco, presente en Chile y Argentina.
Corpus desk
Index ES-coo · coo · Spanish
coo · rank #47,681 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,681
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH conversan
Nearest frequency peer: conversan (-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 “coo”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- contrabajo
contrabajo
52,323 corpus weight
- conversan
conversan
52,321 corpus weight
- coo
coo
52,320 corpus weight
- copiamos
copiamos
52,319 corpus weight
- coque
coque
52,318 corpus weight
- cosquilleo
cosquilleo
52,317 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “coo” 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 | coo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈko] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “coo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for coo is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "cu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈko]. Frequency #47,681 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Gloss: "(Strix rufipes) Ave rapaz nocturna estrigiforme con rayas alternadas entre gris y blanco, presente en Chile y Argentina.".
No misspelling variants are generated for coo in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "cu", "cup", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is coo, spelled C-O-O.
Definition
- 1(Strix rufipes) Ave rapaz nocturna estrigiforme con rayas alternadas entre gris y blanco, presente en Chile y Argentina.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).