pou
[pow]
The verdict
“pou” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,185) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,185
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pozo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pou · pou · Spanish
pou · rank #26,185 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,185
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH Pons
Nearest frequency peer: Pons (-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 “pou”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Plasencia
Plasencia
73,820 corpus weight
- pobrecita
pobrecita
73,818 corpus weight
- Pons
Pons
73,817 corpus weight
- pou
pou
73,816 corpus weight
- presiento
presiento
73,814 corpus weight
- prevén
prevén
73,813 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “pou” 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 | pou |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pow] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “pou”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pou is neighbouring look-alikes ("PP", "PT", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [pow]. Frequency #26,185 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Pozo.".
Zero misspellings are on record for pou in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PP", "PT", "pu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is pou, spelled P-O-U.
Definition
- 1Pozo.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).