unía
[uˈnia]
The verdict
“unía” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,689) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,689
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 448
- “U” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de unir o de unirse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-unia · unía · Spanish
unía · rank #24,689 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,689
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 448
- PHOTO-FINISH universos
Nearest frequency peer: universos (-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 “unía”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Turín
Turín
75,316 corpus weight
- UCI
UCI
75,314 corpus weight
- universos
universos
75,313 corpus weight
- unía
unía
75,312 corpus weight
- vaginal
vaginal
75,309 corpus weight
- vertido
vertido
75,308 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “unía” 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 | unía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [uˈnia] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “unía”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for unía is neighbouring look-alikes ("uno", "usa", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [uˈnia]. Frequency #24,689 among 448 “U” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for unía, with forms such as "nuía", "unaí", and "unnía". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "uno", "usa", "uva", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is unía, spelled U-N-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de unir o de unirse.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de unir o de unirse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nuía
- unaí
- unnía
- uína
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of unía - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "unía", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).