new
/njuː/
The verdict
“new” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,907) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,907
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,151
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nuevo, nueva.
Corpus desk
Index ES-new · new · Spanish
new · rank #1,907 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,907
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Navidad
Nearest frequency peer: Navidad (-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 “new”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- martes
martes
98,097 corpus weight
- metro
metro
98,096 corpus weight
- Navidad
Navidad
98,095 corpus weight
- new
new
98,094 corpus weight
- on
on
98,093 corpus weight
- oportunidad…
oportunidades
98,092 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “new” 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 | new |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /njuː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “new”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for new is neighbouring look-alikes ("no", "ny", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /njuː/. Frequency #1,907 among 1,151 “N” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for new in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "no", "ny", "nm", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is new, spelled N-E-W.
Definition
- 1Nuevo, nueva.
- 2Reciente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how new appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new
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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