uh
[ˈu]
The verdict
“uh” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,021) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,021
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 448
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Denota desilusión o desdén.
Corpus desk
Index ES-uh · uh · Spanish
uh · rank #6,021 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,021
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 448
- PHOTO-FINISH tomamos
Nearest frequency peer: tomamos (-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 “uh”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- tienden
tienden
93,983 corpus weight
- Tokio
Tokio
93,982 corpus weight
- tomamos
tomamos
93,981 corpus weight
- uh
uh
93,980 corpus weight
- use
use
93,979 corpus weight
- variable
variable
93,978 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “uh” 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 | uh |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈu] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #6,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “uh”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for uh is neighbouring look-alikes ("un", "us", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ˈu]. Frequency #6,021 among 448 “U” headwords. Gloss: "Denota desilusión o desdén.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for uh, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "un", "us", "up", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is uh, spelled U-H.
Definition
- 1Denota desilusión o desdén.
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.