shh
[ˈʃ]
The verdict
“shh” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,877) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,877
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Solicitud de silencio.
Corpus desk
Index ES-shh · shh · Spanish
shh · rank #32,877 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,877
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sentenciados
Nearest frequency peer: sentenciados (-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 “shh”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- seccional
seccional
67,128 corpus weight
- sentenciados
sentenciados
67,125 corpus weight
- shh
shh
67,124 corpus weight
- simbología
simbología
67,122 corpus weight
- simulaciones
simulaciones
67,121 corpus weight
- siéntete
siéntete
67,120 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “shh” 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 | shh |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈʃ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “shh”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for shh is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "sí", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ˈʃ]. Frequency #32,877 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Solicitud de silencio.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for shh, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "sí", "so", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is shh, spelled S-H-H.
Definition
- 1Solicitud de silencio.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "shh", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).