cu
[ˈku]
The verdict
“cu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,200) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,200
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nombre de la letra q, Q
Corpus desk
Index ES-cu · cu · Spanish
cu · rank #11,200 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,200
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH criticando
Nearest frequency peer: criticando (-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 “cu”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Contreras
Contreras
88,804 corpus weight
- creyentes
creyentes
88,803 corpus weight
- criticando
criticando
88,802 corpus weight
- cu
cu
88,801 corpus weight
- cuenten
cuenten
88,800 corpus weight
- dejaban
dejaban
88,799 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “cu” 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 | cu |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈku] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #11,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “cu”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cu is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "cup", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈku]. Frequency #11,200 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Nombre de la letra q, Q".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cu, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "cup", "cum", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is cu, spelled C-U.
Definition
- 1Nombre de la letra q, Q
This word in other languages
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.