pub
[ˈpuβ̞]
The verdict
“pub” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,993) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,993
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Local en que se sirven bebidas y más raramente comidas ligeras, normalmente con decoración a la británica, música ambiental y horarios nocturnos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pub · pub · Spanish
pub · rank #13,993 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,993
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH prolongado
Nearest frequency peer: prolongado (-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 “pub”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- procuraduría
procuraduría
86,011 corpus weight
- proliferaci…
proliferación
86,010 corpus weight
- prolongado
prolongado
86,009 corpus weight
- pub
pub
86,008 corpus weight
- regresando
regresando
86,005 corpus weight
- remuneración
remuneración
86,004 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “pub” 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 | pub |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpuβ̞] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “pub”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pub is neighbouring look-alikes ("py", "pum", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈpuβ̞]. Frequency #13,993 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Local en que se sirven bebidas y más raramente comidas ligeras, normalmente con decoración a la británica, música ambiental y horarios nocturnos.".
pub has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "py", "pum", "pue", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 pub, spelled P-U-B.
Definition
- 1Local en que se sirven bebidas y más raramente comidas ligeras, normalmente con decoración a la británica, música ambiental y horarios nocturnos.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).