nui
[ˈnu.i]
The verdict
“nui” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,561) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,561
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,151
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grande
Corpus desk
Index ES-nui · nui · Spanish
nui · rank #48,561 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,561
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,151
- PHOTO-FINISH nudista
Nearest frequency peer: nudista (-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 “nui”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- nudista
nudista
51,441 corpus weight
- nui
nui
51,440 corpus weight
- náufrago
náufrago
51,439 corpus weight
- obsidiana
obsidiana
51,438 corpus weight
- odontólogo
odontólogo
51,437 corpus weight
- omiten
omiten
51,436 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “nui” 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 | nui |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnu.i] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #48,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “nui”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nui is neighbouring look-alikes ("ny", "num", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈnu.i]. Frequency #48,561 among 1,151 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Grande".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for nui, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ny", "num", "nun", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is nui, spelled N-U-I.
Definition
- 1Grande
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).