nuez
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,222
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
nuez is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tipo de fruto seco indehiscente, dotado de un pericarpo duro, por lo general unilocular y monospermo. Pronounced [ˈnwes]. Often confused with num and nun.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nuez |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnwes] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #17,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for nuez is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnwes]. Corpus data places it at rank #17,222 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for nuez, with forms such as "neuz", "nnuez", and "nuezz". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "num", "nun", "nui", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is nuez, spelled N-U-E-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tipo de fruto seco indehiscente, dotado de un pericarpo duro, por lo general unilocular y monospermo.
- 2Semilla del fruto en drupa, no núcula, del nogal (Juglans regia); dotado de epicarpo liso y delicado, mesocarpo correoso y endocarpo duro, de color pardo y superficie reticulada, protege una semilla dicotiledónea rica en aceite que se aprecia en gastronomía.
- 3Protuberancia de la parte delantera de la garganta, característica en los varones adultos, formada por la articulación de las dos láminas del cartílago tiroides. El ángulo de encuentro es más agudo entre los varones que entre las mujeres (90º y 120º, respectivamente).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: neuz,nnuez,nuezz,nuze,unez
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nuez
Misspelling Variants of "nuez"
Frequency rank: #17,222 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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