pour
/ˈpuːr/
The verdict
“pour” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,113) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,113
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Porros, puerros.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pour · pour · Spanish
pour · rank #21,113 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,113
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH portafolio
Nearest frequency peer: portafolio (-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 “pour”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- planificado
planificado
78,891 corpus weight
- political
political
78,890 corpus weight
- portafolio
portafolio
78,889 corpus weight
- pour
pour
78,888 corpus weight
- pradera
pradera
78,887 corpus weight
- presenciales
presenciales
78,885 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “pour” 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 | pour |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpuːr/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #21,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “pour”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pour is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "pub", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈpuːr/. Frequency #21,113 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Porros, puerros.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for pour, with forms such as "opur", "poru", and "pourr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "pub", "pum", 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, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is pour, spelled P-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Porros, puerros.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opur
- poru
- pourr
- ppour
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pour - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pour", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).