jo
[ˈxo]
The verdict
“jo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,319) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,319
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 645
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Expresa decepción, hastío, asombro o enfado.
Corpus desk
Index ES-jo · jo · Spanish
jo · rank #6,319 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,319
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 645
- PHOTO-FINISH Jalisco
Nearest frequency peer: Jalisco (-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 “jo”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- injusto
injusto
93,685 corpus weight
- Irak
Irak
93,684 corpus weight
- Jalisco
Jalisco
93,683 corpus weight
- jo
jo
93,682 corpus weight
- jornadas
jornadas
93,681 corpus weight
- lady
lady
93,680 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “jo” 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 | jo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈxo] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #6,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “jo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for jo is neighbouring look-alikes ("ju", "Joe", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ˈxo]. Frequency #6,319 among 645 “J” headwords. Gloss: "Expresa decepción, hastío, asombro o enfado.".
jo has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ju", "Joe", "joy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is jo, spelled J-O.
Definition
- 1Expresa decepción, hastío, asombro o enfado.
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.