ku
[ˈku]
The verdict
“ku” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,714) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,714
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 248
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ese, esa. Pronombre y adjetivo demostrativo usado para una entidad ausente.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ku · ku · Spanish
ku · rank #29,714 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,714
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 248
- PHOTO-FINISH lanzaba
Nearest frequency peer: lanzaba (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “ku”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- jerárquico
jerárquico
70,292 corpus weight
- Kei
Kei
70,289 corpus weight
- ku
ku
70,287 corpus weight
- lanzaba
lanzaba
70,286 corpus weight
- lastimosame…
lastimosamente
70,285 corpus weight
- ligamento
ligamento
70,283 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ku” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | ku |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [ˈku] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #29,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “ku” en la frecuencia del español
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ku is neighbouring look-alikes ("kun", "Kurt", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced [ˈku]. Frequency #29,714 among 248 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Ese, esa. Pronombre y adjetivo demostrativo usado para una entidad ausente.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ku, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "kun", "Kurt", "kung", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is ku, spelled K-U.
Definition
- 1Ese, esa. Pronombre y adjetivo demostrativo usado para una entidad ausente.
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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- "ku" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "kun". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #29,714 among Spanish headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more Spanish words in the "K" letter cohort. K–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.