jul
[ˈjuːˀl]
The verdict
“jul” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,776) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,776
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 645
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Navidad.
Corpus desk
Index ES-jul · jul · Spanish
jul · rank #19,776 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,776
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 645
- PHOTO-FINISH Josef
Nearest frequency peer: Josef (-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 “jul”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- irresistible
irresistible
80,228 corpus weight
- jardinero
jardinero
80,227 corpus weight
- Josef
Josef
80,226 corpus weight
- jul
jul
80,225 corpus weight
- juntando
juntando
80,224 corpus weight
- jurista
jurista
80,223 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “jul” 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 | jul |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈjuːˀl] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “jul”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for jul is neighbouring look-alikes ("jus", "juro", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈjuːˀl]. Frequency #19,776 among 645 “J” headwords. Gloss: "Navidad.".
jul has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jus", "juro", "just", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is jul, spelled J-U-L.
Definition
- 1Navidad.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).