our
/aʊə(ɹ)/
The verdict
“our” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,418) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,418
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nuestro, nuestra.
Corpus desk
Index ES-our · our · Spanish
our · rank #14,418 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,418
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH ortodoxa
Nearest frequency peer: ortodoxa (-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 “our”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- oportuna
oportuna
85,586 corpus weight
- orgasmo
orgasmo
85,585 corpus weight
- ortodoxa
ortodoxa
85,584 corpus weight
- our
our
85,583 corpus weight
- pagarán
pagarán
85,582 corpus weight
- paramilitar…
paramilitares
85,581 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “our” 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 | our |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /aʊə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “our”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for our is neighbouring look-alikes ("oz", "ow", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /aʊə(ɹ)/. Frequency #14,418 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Nuestro, nuestra.".
Zero misspellings are on record for our in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is our, spelled O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Nuestro, nuestra.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how our appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).