poo
[ˈpɔ.o]
The verdict
“poo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,780) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,780
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Polvo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-poo · poo · Spanish
poo · rank #43,780 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,780
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH predicen
Nearest frequency peer: predicen (+2 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 “poo”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- planeaban
planeaban
56,225 corpus weight
- plasticidad
plasticidad
56,224 corpus weight
- poo
poo
56,221 corpus weight
- predicen
predicen
56,219 corpus weight
- preocuparon
preocuparon
56,218 corpus weight
- preocupéis
preocupéis
56,217 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “poo” 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 | poo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpɔ.o] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “poo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for poo is neighbouring look-alikes ("PP", "PT", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈpɔ.o]. Frequency #43,780 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Polvo.".
No misspelling variants are generated for poo in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. 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.
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 poo, spelled P-O-O.
Definition
- 1Polvo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how poo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A Tan toſte que Saẏda foi.o Crerigo fillou a ⁊ fez logo dela poos ⁊ en ſa bolſſa guardo a
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).