no
[ˈno]
The verdict
“no” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,151
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adverbio de negación, respondiendo a una pregunta.
Corpus desk
Index ES-no · no · Spanish
no · rank #9 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #9
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,151
- PHOTO-FINISH los
Nearest frequency peer: los (-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 “no”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- y
y
99,995 corpus weight
- los
los
99,993 corpus weight
- no
no
99,992 corpus weight
- un
un
99,991 corpus weight
- se
se
99,990 corpus weight
- por
por
99,989 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “no” 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 | no |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ˈno] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “no”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for no is neighbouring look-alikes ("ny", "nu", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced [ˈno]. Frequency #9 among 1,151 “N” headwords. 7 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for no, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ny", "nu", "nt", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is no, spelled N-O.
Definition
- 1Adverbio de negación, respondiendo a una pregunta.
- 2Adverbio de negación, negando la frase o expresión que sigue.
- 3Adverbio de negación, que niega la existencia o realidad del concepto expresado por el adjetivo o sustantivo al que antecede.
- 4Adverbio de negación necesario al comienzo de las frases con nada, nadie, nunca, y otras negaciones después del verbo.
- 5Adverbio de negación, usado en frases interrogativas cuando se espera una respuesta positiva.
- 6Adverbio de negación expletivo, que en comparaciones no niega, sino que refuerza la contraposición de las ideas.
- 7Manera irónica y sarcástica para responder una pregunta tonta por tratarse de algo obvio.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how no appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La no existencia del Yeti, es una suposición fundada.
Nada sé. No sé nada.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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.