peu
[pø]
The verdict
“peu” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #83,263 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,263
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pocos
Corpus desk
Index ES-peu · peu · Spanish
peu · rank #83,263 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,263
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH petrolífero
Nearest frequency peer: petrolífero (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “peu”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- pescas
pescas
16,742 corpus weight
- pescó
pescó
16,741 corpus weight
- petrolífero
petrolífero
16,739 corpus weight
- peu
peu
16,738 corpus weight
- peuple
peuple
16,737 corpus weight
- piloso
piloso
16,735 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “peu” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peu |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [pø] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #83,263 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “peu” en español
Rare enough to double-check
peu is uncommon Spanish at frequency #83,263 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed [pø]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pocos".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for peu, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is peu, spelled P-E-U.
Definition
- 1Pocos
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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