sure
/ʃʊə/ (fusión pour–poor)
The verdict
“sure” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,717) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,717
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Seguro, convencido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sure · sure · Spanish
sure · rank #42,717 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,717
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH suspendan
Nearest frequency peer: suspendan (+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 “sure”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- sumisos
sumisos
57,287 corpus weight
- superadas
superadas
57,286 corpus weight
- sure
sure
57,284 corpus weight
- suspendan
suspendan
57,283 corpus weight
- sustracción
sustracción
57,282 corpus weight
- tabúes
tabúes
57,281 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “sure” 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 | sure |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ʃʊə/ (fusión pour–poor) |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #42,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “sure”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sure is neighbouring look-alikes ("sus", "SUV", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /ʃʊə/ (fusión pour–poor). Frequency #42,717 among 4,169 “S” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for sure, with forms such as "srue", "ssure", and "surre". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sus", "SUV", "suyo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 sure, spelled S-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Seguro, convencido.
- 2Confiable.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srue
- ssure
- surre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sure - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "sure", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).