amargo
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,573
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
amargo is anSpanishadj. It means: Que muestra uno de los sabores elementales, propio de los alcaloides y en general desagradable, producido por la proteína gustducina. Pronounced [aˈmaɾɣ̞o]. It ranks #9,573 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with amigo and apagó.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amargo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [aˈmaɾɣ̞o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for amargo is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈmaɾɣ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,573 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for amargo, with forms such as "aamrgo", "amagro", and "amarggo". 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, "amigo", "apagó", "Amaru", 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 amargo, spelled A-M-A-R-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que muestra uno de los sabores elementales, propio de los alcaloides y en general desagradable, producido por la proteína gustducina.
- 2Figurativamente, que provoca desagrado, tristeza o aflicción.
- 3Dicho de una persona, que provoca una reacción tal en su trato.
- 4Que manifiesta una reacción tal.
- 5Por extensión, que no tiene valor para enfrentarse a las dificultades o para defender sus ideas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aamrgo,amagro,amarggo,amarog,amarrgo,ammargo,amrago,maargo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for amargo
Misspelling Variants of "amargo"
Frequency rank: #9,573 in Spanish
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