puso
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,100
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
puso is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de poner. Pronounced [ˈpuso]. It ranks #1,100 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with put and puta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈpuso] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for puso is 4 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpuso]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,100 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de poner.".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for puso, with forms such as "ppuso", "psuo", and "puos". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "put", "puta", "puto", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is puso, spelled P-U-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de poner.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ppuso,psuo,puos,pusso,upso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for puso
Misspelling Variants of "puso"
Frequency rank: #1,100 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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