som
[ˈsõm]
The verdict
“som” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,412) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,412
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unidad monetaria de Kirguistán, que se divide en 100 tyiyn.
Corpus desk
Index ES-som · som · Spanish
som · rank #32,412 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,412
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sonoros
Nearest frequency peer: sonoros (+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 “som”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- sobriedad
sobriedad
67,593 corpus weight
- Sodoma
Sodoma
67,592 corpus weight
- som
som
67,589 corpus weight
- sonoros
sonoros
67,588 corpus weight
- subtitulada
subtitulada
67,587 corpus weight
- sufrirán
sufrirán
67,586 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “som” 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 | som |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsõm] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “som”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for som is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "st", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈsõm]. Frequency #32,412 among 4,169 “S” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for som in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "st", "sy", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is som, spelled S-O-M.
Definition
- 1Unidad monetaria de Kirguistán, que se divide en 100 tyiyn.
- 2Unidad monetaria de Uzbekistán.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).