sos
[ˈsos]
The verdict
“sos” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,331) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,331
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Segunda persona del singular (vos) del presente de indicativo de ser.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sos · sos · Spanish
sos · rank #1,331 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,331
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sección
Nearest frequency peer: sección (-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 “sos”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- pelo
pelo
98,673 corpus weight
- presión
presión
98,672 corpus weight
- sección
sección
98,671 corpus weight
- sos
sos
98,670 corpus weight
- tercera
tercera
98,669 corpus weight
- venir
venir
98,668 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “sos” 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 | sos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈsos] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “sos”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sos is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "st", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈsos]. Frequency #1,331 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Segunda persona del singular (vos) del presente de indicativo de ser.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sos in our index, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is sos, spelled S-O-S.
Definition
- 1Segunda persona del singular (vos) del presente de indicativo de ser.
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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