adolescente

/[að̞oleˈsẽn̪t̪e]/ adj

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,297

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

adolescente is anSpanishadj. It means: Que se encuentra en la etapa de rápido crecimiento posterior a la pubertad y anterior a la madurez. Pronounced [að̞oleˈsẽn̪t̪e]. It ranks #4,297 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with adolescentes.

Key facts for adolescente
PropertyValue
Headwordadolescente
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdj
IPA[að̞oleˈsẽn̪t̪e]
Letters11
Frequency rank#4,297
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of adolescente in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for adolescente is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [að̞oleˈsẽn̪t̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,297 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Que se encuentra en la etapa de rápido crecimiento posterior a la pubertad y anterior a la madurez.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for adolescente, with forms such as "addolescente", "adloescente", and "adoelscente". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "adolescentes", 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 adolescente, spelled A-D-O-L-E-S-C-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Que se encuentra en la etapa de rápido crecimiento posterior a la pubertad y anterior a la madurez.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: addolescente,adloescente,adoelscente,adolecsente,adolesccente,adolescenet,adolescennte,adolescentte,adolescetne,adolescnete,adolesecnte,adolesscente,adolessente,adollescente,adolsecente,aodlescente,daolescente

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for adolescente

Misspelling Variants of "adolescente"

addolescente12adloescente11adoelscente11adolecsente11adolesccente12adolescenet11adolescennte12adolescentte12
Misspelling Variants of "adolescente"

Frequency rank: #4,297 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "adolescente"?
"adolescente" is spelled A-D-O-L-E-S-C-E-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is [að̞oleˈsẽn̪t̪e].
What does "adolescente" mean?
As an adj, "adolescente" means: Que se encuentra en la etapa de rápido crecimiento posterior a la pubertad y anterior a la madurez.
What words are commonly confused with "adolescente"?
"adolescente" is commonly confused with "adolescentes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "adolescente"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adolescente" is [að̞oleˈsẽn̪t̪e]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adolescente" come from?
"adolescente" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.