autoempleo

[awt̪oẽmˈpleo]

/[awt̪oẽmˈpleo]/ noun

The verdict

“autoempleo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #80,716 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#80,716
frequency rank, Spanish
7,704
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Empleo de una persona que trabaja para ella misma de forma directa en unidades económicas de su propiedad.

Corpus desk

Index ES-autoempleo · autoempleo · Spanish

autoempleo · rank #80,716 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #80,716
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 7,704
  • PHOTO-FINISH autodestructi…

Nearest frequency peer: autodestructiva (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangos de cola larga cerca de “autoempleo”

Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “autoempleo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for autoempleo
PropertyValue
Headwordautoempleo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[awt̪oẽmˈpleo]
Letters10
Frequency rank#80,716
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cola larga: rango de “autoempleo” en español

La frecuencia va del puñado de palabras que usamos sin parar (izquierda) a la cola larga que apenas aparece (derecha).autoempleocae en esta cola de rareza:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

La escala es logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× más rara). Vecinos raros de la misma franja: “autodestructiva” (#80,715), “audax” (#80,714), “atravesé” (#80,713). Entre 7,704 lemas con “A”, “autoempleo” va en #80,716. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

autoempleo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #80,716 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [awt̪oẽmˈpleo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Empleo de una persona que trabaja para ella misma de forma directa en unidades económicas de su propiedad.".

autoempleo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is autoempleo, spelled A-U-T-O-E-M-P-L-E-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Empleo de una persona que trabaja para ella misma de forma directa en unidades económicas de su propiedad.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "autoempleo"?
"autoempleo" is spelled A-U-T-O-E-M-P-L-E-O. The IPA pronunciation is [awt̪oẽmˈpleo].
What does "autoempleo" mean?
As a noun, "autoempleo" means: Empleo de una persona que trabaja para ella misma de forma directa en unidades económicas de su propiedad.
How do you pronounce "autoempleo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "autoempleo" is [awt̪oẽmˈpleo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "autoempleo" come from?
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "autoempleo", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list