shows
/ʃəʊz/
The verdict
“shows” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #11,135 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #11,135
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Forma del plural de show ('espectáculos').
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 | shows |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʃəʊz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shows” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for shows is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʃəʊz/. Corpus data places it at rank #11,135 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Forma del plural de show ('espectáculos').".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for shows, with forms such as "hsows", "shhows", and "shosw". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "sos", "sois", "snow", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is shows, spelled S-H-O-W-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de show ('espectáculos').
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hsows,shhows,shosw,showss,showws,shwos,sohws,sshows
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shows - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “shows”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-H-O-W-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ʃəʊz/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “sos” - see the side-by-side comparison. shows vs sos
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.