put
/py/
The verdict
“put” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,832) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,832
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (il, elle, on) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de pouvoir
Corpus desk
Index ES-put · put · Spanish
put · rank #22,832 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,832
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pulseras
Nearest frequency peer: pulseras (-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 “put”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- proporciona…
proporcionados
77,172 corpus weight
- provisto
provisto
77,171 corpus weight
- pulseras
pulseras
77,170 corpus weight
- put
put
77,169 corpus weight
- quedándose
quedándose
77,168 corpus weight
- quirúrgico
quirúrgico
77,167 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “put” 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 | put |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /py/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “put”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for put is neighbouring look-alikes ("py", "puta", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /py/. Frequency #22,832 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Tercera persona del singular (il, elle, on) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de pouvoir".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for put, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "py", "puta", "puto", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is put, spelled P-U-T.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (il, elle, on) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de pouvoir
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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