now
/naʊ/
The verdict
“now” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,163) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,163
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,151
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ahora, en el momento presente.
Corpus desk
Index ES-now · now · Spanish
now · rank #9,163 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,163
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,151
- PHOTO-FINISH novios
Nearest frequency peer: novios (-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 “now”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- neutral
neutral
90,841 corpus weight
- niegan
niegan
90,840 corpus weight
- novios
novios
90,839 corpus weight
- now
now
90,838 corpus weight
- obrera
obrera
90,837 corpus weight
- ofender
ofender
90,836 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “now” 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 | now |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /naʊ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “now”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for now is neighbouring look-alikes ("ny", "nu", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced /naʊ/. Frequency #9,163 among 1,151 “N” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
now has no tracked misspelling variants, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is now, spelled N-O-W.
Definition
- 1Ahora, en el momento presente.
- 2Ahora mismo, inmediatamente.
- 3Entonces.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how now appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Therefore hear me now, my children, And do not depart from the words of my mouth.
It was only now that I came to understand that texts of supplementary essays to The Lord of the Rings had reached...
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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