cue
/kjuː/
The verdict
“cue” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,969) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,969
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Señal que se emplea para marcar el inicio de una acción.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cue · cue · Spanish
cue · rank #35,969 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,969
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cualitativa
Nearest frequency peer: cualitativa (-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 “cue”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- craneal
craneal
64,035 corpus weight
- criadero
criadero
64,034 corpus weight
- cualitativa
cualitativa
64,033 corpus weight
- cue
cue
64,032 corpus weight
- cultivadores
cultivadores
64,030 corpus weight
- cumpliría
cumpliría
64,029 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “cue” 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 | cue |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kjuː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #35,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “cue”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cue is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "cup", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /kjuː/. Frequency #35,969 among 8,288 “C” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for cue in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "cup", "cum", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is cue, spelled C-U-E.
Definition
- 1Señal que se emplea para marcar el inicio de una acción.
- 2Señal sensorial empleada para identificar experiencias, recuerdos, o para organizar respuestas
- 3Indicación.
- 4Estímulo.
- 5Nombre de la letra Q.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).