ciego
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,687
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ciego is anSpanishadj. It means: Que no ve por defecto en los ojos o en el encéfalo. Pronounced [ˈsjeɣ̞o]. It ranks #4,687 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cio and creo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ciego |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈsjeɣ̞o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ciego is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsjeɣ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,687 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ciego, with forms such as "cciego", "ceigo", and "cieggo". 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, "cio", "creo", "cien", 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 ciego, spelled C-I-E-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que no ve por defecto en los ojos o en el encéfalo.
- 2Poseído por una pasión vehemente que nubla la razón.
- 3Incapaz de percibir o comprender un hecho patente, una cosa evidente.
- 4Comportamiento o sentimiento muy fuerte o fanático, que no ofrece vacilaciones.
- 5Se dice de la vía, conducto, espacio, hueco que está tapiado, cerrado u obstruido.
- 6Se dice de la pared o muro que no tiene ventanas, ni puertas, ni otras aberturas.
- 7Que ha consumido en exceso comida, alcohol o drogas.
- 8Se dice de algunos alimentos que habitualmente presentan agujeros, cuando no los tienen.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cciego,ceigo,cieggo,cieog,cigeo,icego,siego
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ciego
Misspelling Variants of "ciego"
Frequency rank: #4,687 in Spanish
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