uns
/ʊns/
The verdict
“uns” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,514) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,514
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 448
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del acusativo de wir.
Corpus desk
Index ES-uns · uns · Spanish
uns · rank #39,514 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,514
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 448
- PHOTO-FINISH ulterior
Nearest frequency peer: ulterior (-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 “uns”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- térmicos
térmicos
60,492 corpus weight
- tónico
tónico
60,491 corpus weight
- ulterior
ulterior
60,488 corpus weight
- uns
uns
60,487 corpus weight
- valerse
valerse
60,484 corpus weight
- verificados
verificados
60,482 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “uns” 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 | uns |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ʊns/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “uns”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for uns is neighbouring look-alikes ("us", "up", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /ʊns/. Frequency #39,514 among 448 “U” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for uns, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "us", "up", "ur", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is uns, spelled U-N-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del acusativo de wir.
- 2Forma del dativo de wir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how uns appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bis das der Tod uns scheidet.
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).