carácter
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,338
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
carácter is aSpanishnoun. It means: Signo escrito o grabado. Pronounced [kaˈɾakt̪eɾ]. It ranks #1,338 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cráter and carecer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carácter |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈɾakt̪eɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for carácter is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈɾakt̪eɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,338 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for carácter, with forms such as "acrácter", "carcáter", and "carrácter". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cráter", "carecer", "caracteres", 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 carácter, spelled C-A-R-Á-C-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Signo escrito o grabado.
- 2Letra o signo de la escritura.
- 3Rasgo distintivo, particular de manera de ser de una persona o pueblo.
- 4Energía, entereza, firmeza.
- 5Letras de imprenta, de molde.
- 6Naturaleza, condición o categoría propia de una cosa.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrácter,carcáter,carrácter,caráccter,carácetr,carácterr,caráctre,caráctter,carátcer,caárcter,ccarácter,craácter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carácter
Misspelling Variants of "carácter"
Frequency rank: #1,338 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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