jos
[ˈxos]
The verdict
“jos” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,102) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,102
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 645
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de jo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-jos · jos · Spanish
jos · rank #20,102 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,102
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 645
- PHOTO-FINISH Iñaki
Nearest frequency peer: Iñaki (-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 “jos”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- irónica
irónica
79,902 corpus weight
- Isidoro
Isidoro
79,901 corpus weight
- Iñaki
Iñaki
79,900 corpus weight
- jos
jos
79,899 corpus weight
- jugos
jugos
79,898 corpus weight
- jurada
jurada
79,897 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “jos” 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 | jos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈxos] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “jos”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for jos is neighbouring look-alikes ("ju", "joy", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈxos]. Frequency #20,102 among 645 “J” headwords. Gloss: "Forma del plural de jo.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for jos, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ju", "joy", "jul", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is jos, spelled J-O-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de jo.
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).