Cox
[ˈkoks]
The verdict
“Cox” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,082) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,082
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apellido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cox · Cox · Spanish
Cox · rank #24,082 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,082
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH corrían
Nearest frequency peer: corrían (-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 “Cox”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- convertimos
convertimos
75,922 corpus weight
- copio
copio
75,921 corpus weight
- corrían
corrían
75,920 corpus weight
- Cox
Cox
75,919 corpus weight
- cremas
cremas
75,918 corpus weight
- crudos
crudos
75,917 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “Cox” 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 | Cox |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈkoks] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “Cox”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Cox is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "cu", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈkoks]. Frequency #24,082 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Apellido.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Cox in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "cu", "cup", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is Cox, spelled C-O-X.
Definition
- 1Apellido.
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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