newsvsnexosTell them apart

Which to use

“news” and “nexos” are a confusable Spanish pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#5,338
“news” frequency rank
#23,514
“nexos” frequency rank
28852
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature news nexos
Definition Noticias. Forma del plural de nexo.

Where the eye mixes news and nexos

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

4 ch
news
5 ch
nexos

Visual trap between news and nexos

A purely visual mix-up. news (/njuːz/) and nexos ([ˈneksos]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28852, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

news is recorded at frequency rank #5,338, classified as anoun, pronounced /njuːz/. nexos is at rank #23,514, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈneksos].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 28852, this pair ranks #219,907 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of news vs nexos

Shared letters: ens. Private to "news": w. Private to "nexos": ox.

"news" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "nexos" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • newsenws · nesw · newss · newws · nnews · nwes
  • nexosenxos · neoxs · nexoss · nexso · nexxos · nnexos · nxeos

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "news" for "nexos" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (/njuːz/ versus [ˈneksos]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "news" vs "nexos" - which ranks higher?
"news" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,338 in our Spanish list, against #23,514 for "nexos". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "news" and "nexos" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "news" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "nexos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #219,907 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "news" and "nexos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "nacos vs nexos". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #219,907 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list