so
[so]
The verdict
“so” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,151) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,151
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Intensifica las cualidades, normalmente negativas, del sustantivo o adjetivo al que modifica.
Corpus desk
Index ES-so · so · Spanish
so · rank #3,151 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,151
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sigan
Nearest frequency peer: sigan (-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 “so”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- restos
restos
96,853 corpus weight
- señales
señales
96,852 corpus weight
- sigan
sigan
96,851 corpus weight
- so
so
96,850 corpus weight
- sueldo
sueldo
96,849 corpus weight
- superiores
superiores
96,848 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “so” 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 | so |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [so] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #3,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “so”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for so is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "st", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced [so]. Frequency #3,151 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Intensifica las cualidades, normalmente negativas, del sustantivo o adjetivo al que modifica.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for so, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "st", "sy", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is so, spelled S-O.
Definition
- 1Intensifica las cualidades, normalmente negativas, del sustantivo o adjetivo al que modifica.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how so appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Miren el mamarracho, espantajo. ¿Por qué no le retiran las licencias? Si es un predicador de aldea... Insulta a los demás. ¿Usted qué sabe, so bruto? ¿Porque en casa le oímos con la boca abierta cuando nos sermonea, cree que le van a tolerar aquí?
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.