hoz
[ˈos]
The verdict
“hoz” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,446) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,446
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Herramienta para segar trigo y otros cereales. Está formada por un mango corto que se ase con una sola mano y una hoja metálica curva con filo y dientes pequeños por el lado interior. La forma de l...
Corpus desk
Index ES-hoz · hoz · Spanish
hoz · rank #23,446 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,446
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH huertos
Nearest frequency peer: huertos (+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 “hoz”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- heredar
heredar
76,558 corpus weight
- him
him
76,557 corpus weight
- hoz
hoz
76,555 corpus weight
- huertos
huertos
76,554 corpus weight
- imaginamos
imaginamos
76,553 corpus weight
- imagínense
imagínense
76,552 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “hoz” 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 | hoz |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈos] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,446 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “hoz”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hoz is neighbouring look-alikes ("hub", "hui", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈos]. Frequency #23,446 among 1,569 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Herramienta para segar trigo y otros cereales. Está formada por un mango corto que se ase con una sola mano y una hoja metálica curva con filo y dientes pequeños por el lado interior. La forma de l...".
No misspelling variants are generated for hoz in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hub", "hui", "huy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 hoz, spelled H-O-Z.
Definition
- 1Herramienta para segar trigo y otros cereales. Está formada por un mango corto que se ase con una sola mano y una hoja metálica curva con filo y dientes pequeños por el lado interior. La forma de la hoja permite que se de un corte se pueda cosechar un manojo de cañas y espigas.
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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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