oz
/aʊns/
The verdict
“oz” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,661) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,661
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abreviatura de ounce ('onza').
Corpus desk
Index ES-oz · oz · Spanish
oz · rank #16,661 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,661
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH ostenta
Nearest frequency peer: ostenta (-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 “oz”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- opus
opus
83,344 corpus weight
- ora
ora
83,343 corpus weight
- orador
orador
83,342 corpus weight
- ostenta
ostenta
83,341 corpus weight
- oz
oz
83,340 corpus weight
- patata
patata
83,337 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “oz” 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 | oz |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | /aʊns/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #16,661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “oz”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for oz is neighbouring look-alikes ("o", "os", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced /aʊns/. Frequency #16,661 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Abreviatura de ounce ('onza').".
oz doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "o", "os", "of", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is oz, spelled O-Z.
Definition
- 1Abreviatura de ounce ('onza').
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.