zur
/s̻ur/
The verdict
“zur” sits in 16 confusable pairs (corpus #42,218) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,218
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 220
- “Z” headwords
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Madera
Corpus desk
Index ES-zur · zur · Spanish
zur · rank #42,218 · 0 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,218
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 220
- PHOTO-FINISH zika
Nearest frequency peer: zika (-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 “zur”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- yakuza
yakuza
57,787 corpus weight
- yay
yay
57,786 corpus weight
- zika
zika
57,784 corpus weight
- zur
zur
57,783 corpus weight
- ébano
ébano
57,782 corpus weight
- ña
ña
57,781 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “zur” 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 | zur |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /s̻ur/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #42,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “zur”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for zur is neighbouring look-alikes ("zurdo", "zurda", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /s̻ur/. Frequency #42,218 among 220 “Z” headwords. Gloss: "Madera".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for zur, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "zurdo", "zurda", "z", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is zur, spelled Z-U-R.
Definition
- 1Madera
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).