cambio

/[ˈkãmbjo]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#302

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

cambio is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de cambiar. Pronounced [ˈkãmbjo]. It ranks #302 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with campo and comió.

Key facts for cambio
PropertyValue
Headwordcambio
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈkãmbjo]
Letters6
Frequency rank#302
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cambio in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cambio is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkãmbjo]. Corpus data places it at rank #302 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for cambio, with forms such as "acmbio", "cabmio", and "cambbio". 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, "campo", "comió", "combo", 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 cambio, spelled C-A-M-B-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Acción o efecto de cambiar.
  2. 2
    Trueque o permuta de una cosa por otra.
  3. 3
    El dinero fraccionario de moneda.
  4. 4
    Entre negociantes, el acto de tomar dinero, obligándose por cierto premio a ponerlo en la parte que se ajusta.
  5. 5
    El valor oscilante de una moneda relativa a otra.
  6. 6
    Cada uno de los engranajes que tiene una caja de cambios que determinan la velocidad y el par que desarollará un motor en un determinado instante.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acmbio,cabmio,cambbio,camboi,camibo,cammbio,camvio,ccambio,cmabio

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cambio

Misspelling Variants of "cambio"

acmbio6cabmio6cambbio7camboi6camibo6cammbio7camvio6ccambio7
Misspelling Variants of "cambio"

Frequency rank: #302 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cambio"?
"cambio" is spelled C-A-M-B-I-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkãmbjo].
What does "cambio" mean?
As a noun, "cambio" means: Acción o efecto de cambiar.
What words are commonly confused with "cambio"?
"cambio" is commonly confused with "campo", "comió", "combo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cambio"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cambio" is [ˈkãmbjo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cambio" come from?
"cambio" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.