roo
[ˈroo]
The verdict
“roo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,787) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,787
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de roer.
Corpus desk
Index ES-roo · roo · Spanish
roo · rank #13,787 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,787
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH rito
Nearest frequency peer: rito (-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 “roo”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- respeten
respeten
86,217 corpus weight
- resultaba
resultaba
86,216 corpus weight
- rito
rito
86,215 corpus weight
- roo
roo
86,214 corpus weight
- salgas
salgas
86,213 corpus weight
- santísima
santísima
86,212 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “roo” 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 | roo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈroo] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,787 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “roo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for roo is neighbouring look-alikes ("rr", "ru", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈroo]. Frequency #13,787 among 4,151 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de roer.".
roo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rr", "ru", "Rx", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is roo, spelled R-O-O.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de roer.
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).