wo
[voː]
The verdict
“wo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,301) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,301
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 230
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dónde.
Corpus desk
Index ES-wo · wo · Spanish
wo · rank #30,301 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,301
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 230
- PHOTO-FINISH vigilan
Nearest frequency peer: vigilan (-2 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 “wo”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- versa
versa
69,705 corpus weight
- vietnamitas
vietnamitas
69,703 corpus weight
- vigilan
vigilan
69,702 corpus weight
- wo
wo
69,700 corpus weight
- Zurita
Zurita
69,698 corpus weight
- ñoquis
ñoquis
69,697 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “wo” 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 | wo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [voː] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #30,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “wo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for wo is neighbouring look-alikes ("wow", "won", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced [voː]. Frequency #30,301 among 230 “W” headwords. Gloss: "Dónde.".
Zero misspellings are on record for wo in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wow", "won", "woo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is wo, spelled W-O.
Definition
- 1Dónde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how wo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wo wohnst du?
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.