amo
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,233
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
amo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Hombre que está a la cabeza o a cargo de algo, especialmente de una casa, hacienda. animal o familia. Pronounced [ˈamo]. It ranks #1,233 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ay and as.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈamo] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for amo is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈamo]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,233 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for amo in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ay", "as", "an", 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 amo, spelled A-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hombre que está a la cabeza o a cargo de algo, especialmente de una casa, hacienda. animal o familia.
- 2Hombre que posee o es dueño (tiene potestad y autoridad sobre) algo.
- 3Respecto de sus criados o esclavos, hombre que era su propietario.
- 4Persona con gran influencia o predominio sobre otra u otras y sobre cuya voluntad puede mandar.
- 5Hombre encargado de administrar una hacienda (capataz, mayoral) o de cuidar a los niños (ayo) de una familia pudiente.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #1,233 in Spanish
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