oh
[ˈo]
The verdict
“oh” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,689) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,689
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Interjección que se usa para para manifestar muchos y muy diversos movimientos del ánimo, y más ordinariamente asombro, pena o alegría.
Corpus desk
Index ES-oh · oh · Spanish
oh · rank #1,689 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,689
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH objetivos
Nearest frequency peer: objetivos (-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 “oh”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- negra
negra
98,315 corpus weight
- novela
novela
98,314 corpus weight
- objetivos
objetivos
98,313 corpus weight
- oh
oh
98,312 corpus weight
- pa
pa
98,311 corpus weight
- parecía
parecía
98,310 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “oh” 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 | oh |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈo] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #1,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “oh”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for oh is neighbouring look-alikes ("os", "ok", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ˈo]. Frequency #1,689 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Interjección que se usa para para manifestar muchos y muy diversos movimientos del ánimo, y más ordinariamente asombro, pena o alegría.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for oh in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "ok", "on", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is oh, spelled O-H.
Definition
- 1Interjección que se usa para para manifestar muchos y muy diversos movimientos del ánimo, y más ordinariamente asombro, pena o alegría.
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.