ow
/ɑʊ/
The verdict
“ow” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,157) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,157
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ay.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ow · ow · Spanish
ow · rank #43,157 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,157
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH ort
Nearest frequency peer: ort (-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 “ow”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- opongan
opongan
56,847 corpus weight
- orquestada
orquestada
56,846 corpus weight
- ort
ort
56,845 corpus weight
- ow
ow
56,844 corpus weight
- paladín
paladín
56,842 corpus weight
- paleontolog…
paleontología
56,841 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ow” 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 | ow |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /ɑʊ/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #43,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ow”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ow is neighbouring look-alikes ("oz", "oye", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced /ɑʊ/. Frequency #43,157 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Ay.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ow, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "oz", "oye", "own", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is ow, spelled O-W.
Definition
- 1Ay.
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.