nous
[ˈnows]
The verdict
“nous” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,848) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,848
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,151
- “N” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del masculino plural de nou.
Corpus desk
Index ES-nous · nous · Spanish
nous · rank #38,848 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,848
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,151
- PHOTO-FINISH novedosos
Nearest frequency peer: novedosos (+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 “nous”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- netas
netas
61,157 corpus weight
- nous
nous
61,153 corpus weight
- novedosos
novedosos
61,152 corpus weight
- ofrecería
ofrecería
61,150 corpus weight
- oligarquías
oligarquías
61,149 corpus weight
- olive
olive
61,148 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “nous” 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 | nous |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈnows] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #38,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “nous”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nous is neighbouring look-alikes ("nu", "now", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [ˈnows]. Frequency #38,848 among 1,151 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Forma del masculino plural de nou.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for nous, with forms such as "nnous", "nosu", and "nouss". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nu", "now", "num", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is nous, spelled N-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del masculino plural de nou.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnous
- nosu
- nouss
- onus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nous - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "nous", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).