puño

Name: puño, Spanish Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

[ˈpuɲo]

/[ˈpuɲo]/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“puño” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,055) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#10,055
frequency rank, Spanish: 6,028
“P” headwords: 4
tracked misspellings: 20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mano con los dedos cerrados sobre la palma.

Corpus desk

Index ES-puno · puño · Spanish

puño · rank #10,055 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

FREQ-MID #10,055
LEN-MID 4 letters
VOW-2 2 vowels
CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
VAR-LOW 4 variants
BOOK-DENSE 6,028
PHOTO-FINISH puras

Nearest frequency peer: puras (-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.

PT

89,949
puramente

89,948
puras

89,947
puño

89,946
quitan

89,945
recto

89,943

What this shows Las barras sitúan “puño” 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).

puño vs put

50% similar

puño vs pus

50% similar

puño vs puta

50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for puño
Property	Value
Headword	puño
Language	Spanish
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	[ˈpuɲo]
Letters	4
Frequency rank	#10,055
Misspellings tracked	4
Confusable pairs	20
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “puño”

Esta escala corre desde el núcleo del español cotidiano (izquierda) hasta el rastro de formas rara vez usadas (derecha).puñocae aquí:

#10,055

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

La escala es logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× más rara). En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “puras” (#10,054), “quitan” (#10,056), “puramente” (#10,053). Entre 6,028 lemas con “P”, “puño” va en #10,055. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for puño is neighbouring look-alikes ("put", "pus", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈpuɲo]. Frequency #10,055 among 6,028 “P” headwords. 7 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for puño, with forms such as "ppuño", "puoñ", and "pñuo". 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, "put", "pus", "puta", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is puño, spelled P-U-Ñ-O.

Definition

1
Mano con los dedos cerrados sobre la palma.
2
Cantidad que cabe aproximadamente en un puño₁.
3
Parte de algunas prendas de vestir que rodea a la muñeca.
4
Mango de algunas armas o herramienta destinadas a ser sujetadas con la mano.
5
Cada uno de los vértices de una vela triangular.
6
Herraje que se coloca en algunos puños₅.
7
Golpe dado con la mano cerrada.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how puño appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

«—No hay agua potable, ni siquiera agua —Juana aprieta los puños».
«Pero entonces Gloria, que me veía venir, me agarró del puño y me hizo señas para que fuéramos a probarnos ropa a la pieza de la madre, donde había un espejo de cuerpo entero».

Synonyms

puñado empuñadura puñetazo

This word in other languages

fist(English)poing(Français)Faust(Deutsch)punho(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

ppuño
puoñ
pñuo
upño

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of puño - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

Edit distance from "puño"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "puño"?

"puño" is spelled P-U-Ñ-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈpuɲo].

What does "puño" mean?

As a noun, "puño" means: Mano con los dedos cerrados sobre la palma.

What words are commonly confused with "puño"?

"puño" is commonly confused with "put", "pus", "puta". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "puño"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "puño" is [ˈpuɲo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "puño" come from?

"puño" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.

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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "puño", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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