Ius
[ˈjus]
The verdict
“Ius” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,081) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,081
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apellido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ius · Ius · Spanish
Ius · rank #43,081 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,081
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH jacta
Nearest frequency peer: jacta (+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 “Ius”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- inválidos
inválidos
56,925 corpus weight
- ironías
ironías
56,924 corpus weight
- irracionali…
irracionalidad
56,923 corpus weight
- Ius
Ius
56,920 corpus weight
- jacta
jacta
56,919 corpus weight
- jardineros
jardineros
56,918 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “Ius” 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 | Ius |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈjus] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “Ius”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ius is neighbouring look-alikes ("ix", "IVA", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈjus]. Frequency #43,081 among 3,428 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Apellido.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Ius, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ix", "IVA", "ivy", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is Ius, spelled I-U-S.
Definition
- 1Apellido.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).