tos
[ˈt̪os]
The verdict
“tos” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,550) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,550
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contracción espasmódica repentina y a veces repetitiva de la cavidad torácica que resulta en una liberación violenta del aire de los pulmones produciendo un sonido característico.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tos · tos · Spanish
tos · rank #9,550 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,550
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH sutil
Nearest frequency peer: sutil (-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 “tos”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- sudor
sudor
90,454 corpus weight
- susto
susto
90,453 corpus weight
- sutil
sutil
90,452 corpus weight
- tos
tos
90,451 corpus weight
- totales
totales
90,450 corpus weight
- traidores
traidores
90,449 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “tos” 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 | tos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪os] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “tos”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tos is neighbouring look-alikes ("tú", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈt̪os]. Frequency #9,550 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Contracción espasmódica repentina y a veces repetitiva de la cavidad torácica que resulta en una liberación violenta del aire de los pulmones produciendo un sonido característico.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tos, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tú", "TV", "ty", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 tos, spelled T-O-S.
Definition
- 1Contracción espasmódica repentina y a veces repetitiva de la cavidad torácica que resulta en una liberación violenta del aire de los pulmones produciendo un sonido característico.
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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