sous
[ˈsows]
The verdict
“sous” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,705) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,705
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de sou.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sous · sous · Spanish
sous · rank #48,705 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,705
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sobrevivimos
Nearest frequency peer: sobrevivimos (-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 “sous”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- siestas
siestas
51,302 corpus weight
- silk
silk
51,301 corpus weight
- siniestras
siniestras
51,300 corpus weight
- sobrevivimos
sobrevivimos
51,297 corpus weight
- sous
sous
51,296 corpus weight
- standing
standing
51,293 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “sous” 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 | sous |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsows] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #48,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “sous”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sous is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "sus", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈsows]. Frequency #48,705 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Forma del plural de sou.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for sous, with forms such as "osus", "sosu", and "souss". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "sus", "soy", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is sous, spelled S-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de sou.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osus
- sosu
- souss
- ssous
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sous - 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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sous", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).