USB
[ˈusβ̞]
The verdict
“USB” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,505) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,505
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 448
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Estándar informático de transmisión de datos externo cuya clavija de entrada tiene forma rectangular y patillaje de cuatro contactos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-usb · USB · Spanish
USB · rank #11,505 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,505
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 448
- PHOTO-FINISH urgencias
Nearest frequency peer: urgencias (-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 “USB”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- torpe
torpe
88,499 corpus weight
- trabajaban
trabajaban
88,498 corpus weight
- urgencias
urgencias
88,497 corpus weight
- USB
USB
88,496 corpus weight
- valla
valla
88,495 corpus weight
- vinculada
vinculada
88,493 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “USB” 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 | USB |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˈusβ̞] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “USB”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for USB is neighbouring look-alikes ("ut", "uso", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ˈusβ̞]. Frequency #11,505 among 448 “U” headwords. Gloss: "Estándar informático de transmisión de datos externo cuya clavija de entrada tiene forma rectangular y patillaje de cuatro contactos.".
USB doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ut", "uso", "use", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is USB, spelled U-S-B.
Definition
- 1Estándar informático de transmisión de datos externo cuya clavija de entrada tiene forma rectangular y patillaje de cuatro contactos.
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 "USB", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).