uhh
/əː/
The verdict
“uhh” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,051) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,051
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 448
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ¡Uf!, ¡puf!, empleado para expresar confusión, duda o pausa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-uhh · uhh · Spanish
uhh · rank #27,051 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,051
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 448
- PHOTO-FINISH Tánger
Nearest frequency peer: Tánger (-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 “uhh”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Trípoli
Trípoli
72,953 corpus weight
- twist
twist
72,952 corpus weight
- Tánger
Tánger
72,951 corpus weight
- uhh
uhh
72,950 corpus weight
- uniéndose
uniéndose
72,949 corpus weight
- usemos
usemos
72,948 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “uhh” 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 | uhh |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /əː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “uhh”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for uhh is neighbouring look-alikes ("un", "us", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced /əː/. Frequency #27,051 among 448 “U” headwords. Gloss: "¡Uf!, ¡puf!, empleado para expresar confusión, duda o pausa.".
uhh doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "un", "us", "up", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is uhh, spelled U-H-H.
Definition
- 1¡Uf!, ¡puf!, empleado para expresar confusión, duda o pausa.
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).