lux
[ˈluks]
The verdict
“lux” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,482) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,482
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unidad derivada del Sistema Internacional de Unidades para la iluminancia o nivel de iluminación, equivalente a un lumen por metro cuadrado.
Corpus desk
Index ES-lux · lux · Spanish
lux · rank #23,482 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,482
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH Lérida
Nearest frequency peer: Lérida (+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 “lux”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- lluvioso
lluvioso
76,523 corpus weight
- logístico
logístico
76,521 corpus weight
- lux
lux
76,519 corpus weight
- Lérida
Lérida
76,518 corpus weight
- manco
manco
76,516 corpus weight
- mancomunidad
mancomunidad
76,515 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “lux” 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 | lux |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈluks] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “lux”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lux is neighbouring look-alikes ("lx", "luz", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈluks]. Frequency #23,482 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Unidad derivada del Sistema Internacional de Unidades para la iluminancia o nivel de iluminación, equivalente a un lumen por metro cuadrado.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for lux in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lx", "luz", "lxs", 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, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is lux, spelled L-U-X.
Definition
- 1Unidad derivada del Sistema Internacional de Unidades para la iluminancia o nivel de iluminación, equivalente a un lumen por metro cuadrado.
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).