won
[ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝õn]
The verdict
“won” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,847) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,847
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 230
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unidad monetaria de Corea del Norte.
Corpus desk
Index ES-won · won · Spanish
won · rank #17,847 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,847
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 230
- PHOTO-FINISH wild
Nearest frequency peer: wild (-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 “won”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- volverás
volverás
82,157 corpus weight
- wild
wild
82,155 corpus weight
- won
won
82,154 corpus weight
- yankees
yankees
82,153 corpus weight
- ye
ye
82,152 corpus weight
- ágil
ágil
82,151 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “won” 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 | won |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝õn] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,847 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “won”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for won is neighbouring look-alikes ("wow", "woo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝õn]. Frequency #17,847 among 230 “W” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for won, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wow", "woo", "word", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is won, spelled W-O-N.
Definition
- 1Unidad monetaria de Corea del Norte.
- 2Unidad monetaria de Corea del Sur.
- 3Unidad monetaria que circuló en el Imperio de Corea entre 1902 y 1910.
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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