issue
/i.sy/
The verdict
“issue” sits in 3 confusable pairs (corpus #47,892) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,892
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Salida de un lugar o de un conflicto.
Corpus desk
Index ES-issue · issue · Spanish
issue · rank #47,892 · 4 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,892
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH jalapa
Nearest frequency peer: jalapa (+2 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 “issue”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- intercambia…
intercambiamos
52,115 corpus weight
- interesas
interesas
52,114 corpus weight
- interpelaci…
interpelación
52,113 corpus weight
- interponga
interponga
52,112 corpus weight
- issue
issue
52,109 corpus weight
- jalapa
jalapa
52,107 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “issue” 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 | issue |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /i.sy/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #47,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “issue”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for issue is neighbouring look-alikes ("issues", "irse", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /i.sy/. Frequency #47,892 among 3,428 “I” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for issue, with forms such as "isseu", "isue", and "isuse". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "issues", "irse", "ISSN", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is issue, spelled I-S-S-U-E.
Definition
- 1Salida de un lugar o de un conflicto.
- 2Final de algo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isseu
- isue
- isuse
- sisue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of issue - 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 "issue", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).