cuán
[ˈkwãn]
The verdict
“cuán” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #6,647. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,647
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se usa en oraciones exclamativas para acentuar el grado o la intensidad.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cuan · cuán · Spanish
cuán · rank #6,647 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,647
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH creyendo
Nearest frequency peer: creyendo (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “cuán”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- continúan
continúan
93,357 corpus weight
- cotidiana
cotidiana
93,356 corpus weight
- creyendo
creyendo
93,355 corpus weight
- cuán
cuán
93,354 corpus weight
- deciden
deciden
93,353 corpus weight
- definitivo
definitivo
93,352 corpus weight
What this shows “cuán” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | cuán |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ˈkwãn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “cuán”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around cuán (IPA [ˈkwãn]), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #6,647 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Se usa en oraciones exclamativas para acentuar el grado o la intensidad.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for cuán, with forms such as "ccuán", "cuná", and "cuánn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cup", "cum", "cut", 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, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is cuán, spelled C-U-Á-N.
Definition
- 1Se usa en oraciones exclamativas para acentuar el grado o la intensidad.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccuán
- cuná
- cuánn
- cáun
- ucán
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cuán - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cuán", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).