w
[ˈd̪oβ̞le ˈβ̞e]
The verdict
“w” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #3,221 in Spanish word frequency and used as a character.
- #3,221
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1
- letter
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Vigesimocuarta letra del alfabeto español y decimonovena consonante. Su nombre es uve doble, ve doble, doble ve o doble u (debido al calco del inglés dábliu). Esta letra se usa solamente en voces e...
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 | w |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Character |
| IPA | [ˈd̪oβ̞le ˈβ̞e] |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #3,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “w” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for w is 1 letters long, classified as a character, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈd̪oβ̞le ˈβ̞e]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,221 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Vigesimocuarta letra del alfabeto español y decimonovena consonante. Su nombre es uve doble, ve doble, doble ve o doble u (debido al calco del inglés dábliu). Esta letra se usa solamente en voces e...".
w doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "we", "wa", "wo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is w, spelled W.
Definition
- 1Vigesimocuarta letra del alfabeto español y decimonovena consonante. Su nombre es uve doble, ve doble, doble ve o doble u (debido al calco del inglés dábliu). Esta letra se usa solamente en voces extranjeras.
This word in other languages
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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Using “w”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is W - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈd̪oβ̞le ˈβ̞e] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “we” - see the side-by-side comparison. w vs we
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.