pue
[ˈpwe]
The verdict
“pue” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,853) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,853
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se usa al terminar una frase para reforzarla o darle énfasis.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pue · pue · Spanish
pue · rank #19,853 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,853
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH proyectada
Nearest frequency peer: proyectada (-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 “pue”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- prohibicion…
prohibiciones
80,151 corpus weight
- protagoniza…
protagonizado
80,150 corpus weight
- proyectada
proyectada
80,149 corpus weight
- pue
pue
80,148 corpus weight
- pusieran
pusieran
80,147 corpus weight
- páramo
páramo
80,146 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “pue” 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 | pue |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈpwe] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,853 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “pue”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pue is neighbouring look-alikes ("py", "pum", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ˈpwe]. Frequency #19,853 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Se usa al terminar una frase para reforzarla o darle énfasis.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pue, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "py", "pum", "put", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is pue, spelled P-U-E.
Definition
- 1Se usa al terminar una frase para reforzarla o darle énfasis.
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).