URL
[ˈuɾl]
The verdict
“URL” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,273) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,273
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 448
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Es la forma universalmente utilizada para especificar la dirección global de documentos en el internet, Una URL es una cadena de caracteres que consta de los siguientes componentes: ://:@:/
Corpus desk
Index ES-url · URL · Spanish
URL · rank #12,273 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,273
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 448
- PHOTO-FINISH tuyas
Nearest frequency peer: tuyas (-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 “URL”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- transversal
transversal
87,731 corpus weight
- tutor
tutor
87,730 corpus weight
- tuyas
tuyas
87,729 corpus weight
- URL
URL
87,728 corpus weight
- vagos
vagos
87,727 corpus weight
- valora
valora
87,726 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “URL” 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 | URL |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˈuɾl] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “URL”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for URL is neighbouring look-alikes ("us", "ut", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ˈuɾl]. Frequency #12,273 among 448 “U” headwords. Gloss: "Es la forma universalmente utilizada para especificar la dirección global de documentos en el internet, Una URL es una cadena de caracteres que consta de los siguientes componentes: ://:@:/".
Zero misspellings are on record for URL in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "us", "ut", "uso", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is URL, spelled U-R-L.
Definition
- 1Es la forma universalmente utilizada para especificar la dirección global de documentos en el internet, Una URL es una cadena de caracteres que consta de los siguientes componentes: ://:@:/
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how URL appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
http://es.wiktionary.com.
http://es.wiktionary.com/wiki/Portada.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).