xu
[ˈsu]
The verdict
“xu” sits in 7 confusable pairs (corpus #35,828) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,828
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 29
- “X” headwords
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unidad monetaria de Vietnam, la centésima parte de un dong y décima de un hào.
Corpus desk
Index ES-xu · xu · Spanish
xu · rank #35,828 · 0 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,828
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 29
- PHOTO-FINISH writing
Nearest frequency peer: writing (-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 “xu”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
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64,174 corpus weight
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64,173 corpus weight
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64,172 corpus weight
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64,171 corpus weight
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64,170 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “xu” 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 | xu |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsu] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #35,828 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “xu”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for xu is neighbouring look-alikes ("x", "xi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈsu]. Frequency #35,828 among 29 “X” headwords. Gloss: "Unidad monetaria de Vietnam, la centésima parte de un dong y décima de un hào.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for xu in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "x", "xi", "xq", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is xu, spelled X-U.
Definition
- 1Unidad monetaria de Vietnam, la centésima parte de un dong y décima de un hào.
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.