bisiesto

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for bisiesto is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [biˈsjest̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #77,966 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Se dice del año que tiene 366 días, generalmente añadiendo un día al mes de febrero. Ocurre cada cuatro años, para compensar un cuarto de día que se pierde en el calendario solar anualmente en rela...".

No misspelling variants are generated for bisiesto in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 bisiesto, spelled B-I-S-I-E-S-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.