ou
[ˈɔw]
The verdict
“ou” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,801) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,801
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Huevo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ou · ou · Spanish
ou · rank #22,801 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,801
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH orgía
Nearest frequency peer: orgía (-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 “ou”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- optimizar
optimizar
77,203 corpus weight
- orfanato
orfanato
77,202 corpus weight
- orgía
orgía
77,201 corpus weight
- ou
ou
77,200 corpus weight
- paliar
paliar
77,199 corpus weight
- panameña
panameña
77,198 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ou” 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 | ou |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɔw] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #22,801 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ou”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ou is neighbouring look-alikes ("oz", "ow", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈɔw]. Frequency #22,801 among 1,467 “O” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for ou in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "oz", "ow", "oye", 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, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is ou, spelled O-U.
Definition
- 1Huevo.
- 2Huevo.
- 3Cojón o huevo.
Synonyms
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.