PSOE
[ˈsoe]
The verdict
“PSOE” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,206) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,206
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sigla de Partido Socialista Obrero Español.
Corpus desk
Index ES-psoe · PSOE · Spanish
PSOE · rank #3,206 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,206
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH propaganda
Nearest frequency peer: propaganda (-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 “PSOE”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Per
Per
96,798 corpus weight
- periódicos
periódicos
96,797 corpus weight
- propaganda
propaganda
96,796 corpus weight
- PSOE
PSOE
96,795 corpus weight
- querían
querían
96,794 corpus weight
- ramón
ramón
96,793 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “PSOE” 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 | PSOE |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˈsoe] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “PSOE”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for PSOE is neighbouring look-alikes ("pue", "puso", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ˈsoe]. Frequency #3,206 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Sigla de Partido Socialista Obrero Español.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for PSOE, with forms such as "ppsoe", "pssoe", and "spoe". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pue", "puso", "pude", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is PSOE, spelled P-S-O-E.
Definition
- 1Sigla de Partido Socialista Obrero Español.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ppsoe
- pssoe
- spoe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of PSOE - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "PSOE", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).