sum
[sʌm]
The verdict
“sum” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,789) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,789
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suma, adición.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sum · sum · Spanish
sum · rank #27,789 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,789
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH Stein
Nearest frequency peer: Stein (-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 “sum”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- stay
stay
72,215 corpus weight
- steel
steel
72,214 corpus weight
- Stein
Stein
72,213 corpus weight
- sum
sum
72,212 corpus weight
- surcoreano
surcoreano
72,211 corpus weight
- sífilis
sífilis
72,210 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “sum” 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 | sum |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sʌm] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “sum”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sum is neighbouring look-alikes ("sy", "sus", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [sʌm]. Frequency #27,789 among 4,169 “S” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sum, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sy", "sus", "sur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is sum, spelled S-U-M.
Definition
- 1Suma, adición.
- 2Cantidad.
- 3Resumen, sumario.
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).