SUV
[ˈsuβ̞]
The verdict
“SUV” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,009) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,009
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vehículo práctico dedicado para la diversión o el ocio, muchas veces con una buena capacidad en el maletero para portar el equipamiento para la práctica de algún deporte.
Corpus desk
Index ES-suv · SUV · Spanish
SUV · rank #40,009 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,009
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sílice
Nearest frequency peer: sílice (+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 “SUV”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- sulfúrico
sulfúrico
59,996 corpus weight
- sumaban
sumaban
59,995 corpus weight
- SUV
SUV
59,992 corpus weight
- sílice
sílice
59,991 corpus weight
- tabernas
tabernas
59,989 corpus weight
- taburete
taburete
59,988 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “SUV” 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 | SUV |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsuβ̞] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “SUV”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for SUV is neighbouring look-alikes ("sy", "suyo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈsuβ̞]. Frequency #40,009 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Vehículo práctico dedicado para la diversión o el ocio, muchas veces con una buena capacidad en el maletero para portar el equipamiento para la práctica de algún deporte.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for SUV, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sy", "suyo", "suya", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is SUV, spelled S-U-V.
Definition
- 1Vehículo práctico dedicado para la diversión o el ocio, muchas veces con una buena capacidad en el maletero para portar el equipamiento para la práctica de algún deporte.
This word in other languages
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).