two
[ˈtu]
The verdict
“two” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,982) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,982
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Palabra clave radiofónica del ICAO y NATO para la cifra 2.
Corpus desk
Index ES-two · two · Spanish
two · rank #15,982 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,982
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tsunami
Nearest frequency peer: tsunami (-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 “two”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- trasladados
trasladados
84,022 corpus weight
- trazar
trazar
84,021 corpus weight
- tsunami
tsunami
84,020 corpus weight
- two
two
84,019 corpus weight
- tóxica
tóxica
84,018 corpus weight
- urge
urge
84,017 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “two” 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 | two |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtu] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “two”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for two is neighbouring look-alikes ("ty", "tú", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈtu]. Frequency #15,982 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Palabra clave radiofónica del ICAO y NATO para la cifra 2.".
two doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ty", "tú", "to", 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 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 two, spelled T-W-O.
Definition
- 1Palabra clave radiofónica del ICAO y NATO para la cifra 2.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).