activo
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,435
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
activo is anSpanishadj. It means: Que es capaz de causar efecto o ser fuente de acciones. Pronounced [akˈt̪iβ̞o]. It ranks #2,435 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with acto and ático.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | activo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [akˈt̪iβ̞o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for activo is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [akˈt̪iβ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,435 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 activo, with forms such as "acctivo", "acitvo", and "actibo". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "acto", "ático", "Ártico", 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 activo, spelled A-C-T-I-V-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que es capaz de causar efecto o ser fuente de acciones.
- 2Que actúa con eficacia, agilidad y presteza.
- 3Que requiere de acción.
- 4Inclinado a la acción más que a la contemplación o la reflexión.
- 5Que manifiesta radioactividad.
- 6Que provoca catálisis.
- 7Dicho de una voz de los verbos, que toma como sujeto al agente de una acción transitiva y no a su objeto.
- 8Bienes económicos y derechos a cobrar de un comerciante o empresa.
- 9Que penetra a su pareja, en una relación homosexual.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acctivo,acitvo,actibo,actiov,activvo,acttivo,actvio,atcivo,cativo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for activo
Misspelling Variants of "activo"
Frequency rank: #2,435 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our Spanish index: