acento
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,910
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
acento is aSpanishnoun. It means: Realce con que se pronuncia una sílaba, dándole mayor tono o relieve que las demás. Pronounced [aˈsẽn̪t̪o]. It ranks #5,910 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with acto and Anto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acento |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈsẽn̪t̪o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for acento is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈsẽn̪t̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,910 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for acento, with forms such as "accento", "acennto", and "acenot". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "acto", "Anto", "acero", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is acento, spelled A-C-E-N-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Realce con que se pronuncia una sílaba, dándole mayor tono o relieve que las demás.
- 2Raya diagonal que se hace en ciertos casos sobre una vocal para indicar que debe ser pronunciada con mayor intensidad o para diferenciar una palabra de otra.
- 3Entonación de la voz al hablar, o tono particular para indicar ciertas emociones o propósitos.
- 4Manera de hablar y pronunciar característica de un individuo o región.
- 5Énfasis que se pone sobre determinada sílaba de un verso para efectos rítmicos.
- 6Peso o importancia que se otorga a algo.
- 7Elemento o cualidad distintiva, en especial referido a un detalle que contrasta con lo que lo rodea.
- 8Énfasis recurrente a intervalos regulares que, generalmente, marca el comienzo del compás.
- 9El relieve expresivo de un pasaje o de una nota (normalmente marcado en la partitura).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: accento,acennto,acenot,acentto,acetno,acneto,aecnto,asento,caento
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for acento
Misspelling Variants of "acento"
Frequency rank: #5,910 in Spanish
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