Tur
[ˈt̪uɾ]
The verdict
“Tur” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,311) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,311
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apellido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tur · Tur · Spanish
Tur · rank #43,311 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,311
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tucumano
Nearest frequency peer: tucumano (-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 “Tur”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- trocitos
trocitos
56,694 corpus weight
- tron
tron
56,693 corpus weight
- trufas
trufas
56,692 corpus weight
- tucumano
tucumano
56,691 corpus weight
- Tur
Tur
56,690 corpus weight
- Uriarte
Uriarte
56,687 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “Tur” 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 | Tur |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪uɾ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “Tur”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Tur is neighbouring look-alikes ("TV", "ty", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈt̪uɾ]. Frequency #43,311 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Apellido.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Tur in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TV", "ty", "tus", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is Tur, spelled T-U-R.
Definition
- 1Apellido.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).