who
/huː/
The verdict
“who” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,075) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,075
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 230
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quién.
Corpus desk
Index ES-who · who · Spanish
who · rank #12,075 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,075
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 230
- PHOTO-FINISH Vladimir
Nearest frequency peer: Vladimir (-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 “who”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- viajado
viajado
87,929 corpus weight
- violador
violador
87,928 corpus weight
- Vladimir
Vladimir
87,927 corpus weight
- who
who
87,926 corpus weight
- Xavier
Xavier
87,925 corpus weight
- yacimientos
yacimientos
87,924 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “who” 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 | who |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /huː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “who”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for who is neighbouring look-alikes ("wo", "wow", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /huː/. Frequency #12,075 among 230 “W” headwords. Gloss: "Quién.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for who, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wo", "wow", "win", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is who, spelled W-H-O.
Definition
- 1Quién.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how who appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).