SMS
[ˈsms]
The verdict
“SMS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,224) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,224
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Short Message Service, servicio de mensajes cortos que ofrece el sistema de telefonía móvil GSM.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sms · SMS · Spanish
SMS · rank #10,224 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,224
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH simbólico
Nearest frequency peer: simbólico (-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 “SMS”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- severa
severa
89,780 corpus weight
- sigas
sigas
89,779 corpus weight
- simbólico
simbólico
89,778 corpus weight
- SMS
SMS
89,777 corpus weight
- socialmente
socialmente
89,776 corpus weight
- sonriendo
sonriendo
89,775 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “SMS” 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 | SMS |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˈsms] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “SMS”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for SMS is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "so", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ˈsms]. Frequency #10,224 among 4,169 “S” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for SMS in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "so", "st", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is SMS, spelled S-M-S.
Definition
- 1Short Message Service, servicio de mensajes cortos que ofrece el sistema de telefonía móvil GSM.
- 2Mensaje enviado mediante ese servicio.
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 "SMS", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).