brigadier
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,463
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
brigadier is aSpanishnoun. It means: Oficial general cuya categoría era inmediatamente superior a la de coronel en el ejército, y a la de contraalmirante en la marina. Hoy ha sido reemplazada esta categoría por la de general de brigad... Pronounced [bɾiɣ̞aˈð̞jeɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brigadier |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bɾiɣ̞aˈð̞jeɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for brigadier is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bɾiɣ̞aˈð̞jeɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,463 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for brigadier, with forms such as "bbrigadier", "birgadier", and "brgiadier". 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 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 brigadier, spelled B-R-I-G-A-D-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Oficial general cuya categoría era inmediatamente superior a la de coronel en el ejército, y a la de contraalmirante en la marina. Hoy ha sido reemplazada esta categoría por la de general de brigada en el ejército, y la de contraalmirante en la marina.
- 2Militar que en los antiguos guardias de Corps desempeñaba en su compañía las funciones del sargento mayor de la brigada del ejército.
- 3En las antiguas compañías de guardias marinas, el que ejercía las funciones de cabo.
- 4Aspirante naval que en la escuela cuida del orden de su sección, y en los buques, del de la camareta.
- 5Oficial del Ejército, con rango inmediatamente superior al del coronel e inmediatamente inferior al del general de brigada.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrigadier,birgadier,brgiadier,briagdier,brigaddier,brigadeir,brigadierr,brigadire,brigaider,brigdaier,briggadier,brrigadier,rbigadier,vrigadier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for brigadier
Misspelling Variants of "brigadier"
Frequency rank: #18,463 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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