altruismo
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,916
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
altruismo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Esmero y diligencia puesto por una persona en conseguir el bien de los demás, aun a expensas del propio Pronounced [al̪ˈt̪ɾwismo]. Often confused with altruista.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | altruismo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [al̪ˈt̪ɾwismo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #36,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for altruismo is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [al̪ˈt̪ɾwismo]. Corpus data places it at rank #36,916 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for altruismo, with forms such as "alltruismo", "alrtuismo", and "altriusmo". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "altruista", 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 altruismo, spelled A-L-T-R-U-I-S-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Esmero y diligencia puesto por una persona en conseguir el bien de los demás, aun a expensas del propio
- 2Manifestación a través de la cual genes o individuos dentro de su especie benefician a otros a costa de sí mismos
- 3Doctrina ética que se opone al egoísmo
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alltruismo,alrtuismo,altriusmo,altrruismo,altruimso,altruismmo,altruisom,altruissmo,altrusimo,alttruismo,alturismo,atlruismo,latruismo
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Misspelling Variants of "altruismo"
Frequency rank: #36,916 in Spanish
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