sus
[sus]
The verdict
“sus” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se emplea para avivar, infundir ánimo e incitar a la acción rápida y con vigor.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sus · sus · Spanish
sus · rank #32 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #32
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH este
Nearest frequency peer: este (-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 “sus”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- mi
mi
99,972 corpus weight
- le
le
99,971 corpus weight
- este
este
99,970 corpus weight
- sus
sus
99,969 corpus weight
- esta
esta
99,968 corpus weight
- todo
todo
99,967 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “sus” 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 | sus |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [sus] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “sus”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sus is neighbouring look-alikes ("sy", "SUV", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [sus]. Frequency #32 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Se emplea para avivar, infundir ánimo e incitar a la acción rápida y con vigor.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sus, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sy", "SUV", "suyo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is sus, spelled S-U-S.
Definition
- 1Se emplea para avivar, infundir ánimo e incitar a la acción rápida y con vigor.
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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