rua
[ˈrwa]
The verdict
“rua” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,933) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,933
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Segunda persona del singular (vos) del imperativo afirmativo de ruar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-rua · rua · Spanish
rua · rank #28,933 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,933
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH robas
Nearest frequency peer: robas (-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 “rua”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- riquísimo
riquísimo
71,071 corpus weight
- rivers
rivers
71,070 corpus weight
- robas
robas
71,069 corpus weight
- rua
rua
71,068 corpus weight
- Rut
Rut
71,067 corpus weight
- sacaría
sacaría
71,066 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “rua” 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 | rua |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈrwa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #28,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “rua”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rua is neighbouring look-alikes ("Rx", "run", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈrwa]. Frequency #28,933 among 4,151 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Segunda persona del singular (vos) del imperativo afirmativo de ruar.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rua, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rx", "run", "rue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is rua, spelled R-U-A.
Definition
- 1Segunda persona del singular (vos) del imperativo afirmativo de ruar.
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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