dúo
[ˈd̪uo]
The verdict
“dúo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,808) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,808
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composición musical escrita para ser interpretada por dos instrumentos o dos voces.
Corpus desk
Index ES-duo · dúo · Spanish
dúo · rank #12,808 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,808
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH documentado
Nearest frequency peer: documentado (-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 “dúo”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- distribuido
distribuido
87,196 corpus weight
- distribuidos
distribuidos
87,195 corpus weight
- documentado
documentado
87,194 corpus weight
- dúo
dúo
87,193 corpus weight
- elemental
elemental
87,192 corpus weight
- elogios
elogios
87,191 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “dúo” 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 | dúo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈd̪uo] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “dúo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dúo is neighbouring look-alikes ("DVD", "duro", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈd̪uo]. Frequency #12,808 among 4,885 “D” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dúo, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "DVD", "duro", "dura", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 dúo, spelled D-Ú-O.
Definition
- 1Composición musical escrita para ser interpretada por dos instrumentos o dos voces.
- 2Conjunto musical formado por dos voces o instrumentos.
- 3Conjunto de dos personas entre las cuales hay entendimiento o colaboración, o de dos cosas que están muy relacionadas.
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 "dúo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).