und
/ʊnt/
The verdict
“und” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,978) as a conjunction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,978
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 448
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Y.
Corpus desk
Index ES-und · und · Spanish
und · rank #14,978 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,978
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 448
- PHOTO-FINISH unilateral
Nearest frequency peer: unilateral (+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 “und”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Teruel
Teruel
85,026 corpus weight
- think
think
85,025 corpus weight
- und
und
85,023 corpus weight
- unilateral
unilateral
85,022 corpus weight
- vagones
vagones
85,021 corpus weight
- vestíbulo
vestíbulo
85,020 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “und” 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 | und |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | /ʊnt/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “und”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for und is neighbouring look-alikes ("us", "up", …), not just typos; it is aconjunction pronounced /ʊnt/. Frequency #14,978 among 448 “U” headwords. Gloss: "Y.".
und has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "us", "up", "ur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is und, spelled U-N-D.
Definition
- 1Y.
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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