whose
/huːz/
The verdict
“whose” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #77,792 among 230 “W” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,792
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 230
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De quién, de quiénes.
Corpus desk
Index ES-whose · whose · Spanish
whose · rank #77,792 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,792
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 230
- PHOTO-FINISH wicked
Nearest frequency peer: wicked (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “whose”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- vienés
vienés
22,215 corpus weight
- whose
whose
22,209 corpus weight
- wicked
wicked
22,208 corpus weight
- wie
wie
22,207 corpus weight
- wir
wir
22,206 corpus weight
- Worms
Worms
22,203 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “whose” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | whose |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /huːz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “whose” en español
Rare enough to double-check
whose is uncommon Spanish at frequency #77,792 among 230 “W” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed /huːz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for whose in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 whose, spelled W-H-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1De quién, de quiénes.
- 2Cuyo, cuyos, cuya, cuyas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how whose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You
The basic element, carbon, is one whose atoms have an almost infinite capacity for uniting with each other in chains and rings and various other configurations, and for becoming linked with atoms of other substances.
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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