os
[os]
The verdict
“os” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #449) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #449
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caso acusativo y dativo del pronombre personal vosotros, una de las formas de la segunda persona del plural en español.
Corpus desk
Index ES-os · os · Spanish
os · rank #449 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #449
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH ojos
Nearest frequency peer: ojos (-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 “os”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- mundial
mundial
99,555 corpus weight
- obra
obra
99,554 corpus weight
- ojos
ojos
99,553 corpus weight
- os
os
99,552 corpus weight
- pensar
pensar
99,551 corpus weight
- servicios
servicios
99,550 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “os” 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 | os |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [os] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “os”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for os is neighbouring look-alikes ("oz", "ou", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced [os]. Frequency #449 among 1,467 “O” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for os in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "oz", "ou", "ot", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is os, spelled O-S.
Definition
- 1Caso acusativo y dativo del pronombre personal vosotros, una de las formas de la segunda persona del plural en español.
- 2Caso acusativo y dativo del pronombre personal vos, una de las formas de la segunda persona del singular en español.
- 3Pronombre reflexivo de éste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how os appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Os veo a todos, os siento a todos en mi corazón.
Y también cuando leía: …los altos cielos que de vuestra divinidad divinamente con las estrellas os fortifican, y os hacen merecedora del merecimiento que merece la vuestra grandeza.
This word in other languages
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.