poh
[ˈpo]
The verdict
“poh” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,334) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,334
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Denota impaciencia, alegría, frustración y otros sentimientos según la entonación que se le dé.
Corpus desk
Index ES-poh · poh · Spanish
poh · rank #47,334 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,334
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH poetry
Nearest frequency peer: poetry (-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 “poh”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- plumero
plumero
52,669 corpus weight
- poetry
poetry
52,668 corpus weight
- poh
poh
52,667 corpus weight
- politique
politique
52,666 corpus weight
- polígrafo
polígrafo
52,665 corpus weight
- Pombo
Pombo
52,664 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “poh” 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 | poh |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈpo] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “poh”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for poh is neighbouring look-alikes ("PP", "PT", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ˈpo]. Frequency #47,334 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Denota impaciencia, alegría, frustración y otros sentimientos según la entonación que se le dé.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for poh, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PP", "PT", "pu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is poh, spelled P-O-H.
Definition
- 1Denota impaciencia, alegría, frustración y otros sentimientos según la entonación que se le dé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how poh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Yo — si que le dijo — patroncito, ya fue palomita, poh, ya no fue ratón sola, ya jui una paloma — si que le dijo la palomita — patroncito — si que le dijo — último día que me voy a despedir con usté.
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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