pus
[ˈpus]
The verdict
“pus” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,976) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,976
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sustancia blanquecina o amarillenta producida por el cuerpo durante procesos infecciosos. Está compuesto, principalmente, por microorganismos muertos, glóbulos blancos muertos, y restos de tejido d...
Corpus desk
Index ES-pus · pus · Spanish
pus · rank #26,976 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,976
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pupilas
Nearest frequency peer: pupilas (-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 “pus”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- proporcione
proporcione
73,028 corpus weight
- pupilas
pupilas
73,026 corpus weight
- pus
pus
73,025 corpus weight
- Rancagua
Rancagua
73,024 corpus weight
- rareza
rareza
73,023 corpus weight
- rechazamos
rechazamos
73,022 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “pus” 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 | pus |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpus] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “pus”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pus is neighbouring look-alikes ("py", "put", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈpus]. Frequency #26,976 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Sustancia blanquecina o amarillenta producida por el cuerpo durante procesos infecciosos. Está compuesto, principalmente, por microorganismos muertos, glóbulos blancos muertos, y restos de tejido d...".
Zero misspellings are on record for pus in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "py", "put", "puta", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 pus, spelled P-U-S.
Definition
- 1Sustancia blanquecina o amarillenta producida por el cuerpo durante procesos infecciosos. Está compuesto, principalmente, por microorganismos muertos, glóbulos blancos muertos, y restos de tejido dañado.
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).