compañero
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,629
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
compañero is aSpanishnoun. It means: Individuo que acompaña o da compañía a una persona o animal. Pronounced [kõmpaˈɲeɾo]. It ranks #1,629 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with comparo and componer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | compañero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kõmpaˈɲeɾo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for compañero is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõmpaˈɲeɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,629 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 compañero, with forms such as "ccompañero", "cmopañero", and "comapñero". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "comparo", "componer", "compañeros", 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 compañero, spelled C-O-M-P-A-Ñ-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Individuo que acompaña o da compañía a una persona o animal.
- 2Varón con el que se comparte algún aspecto de la vida, especialmente en relación de pareja.
- 3Varón con el que se realiza una labor o actividad conjuntamente, o con quien se comparte un destino.
- 4Cosa que hace juego con otra, que va en conjunto con ella.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccompañero,cmopañero,comapñero,commpañero,compaeñro,compañeor,compañerro,compañreo,comppañero,compñaero,copmañero,ocmpañero
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for compañero
Misspelling Variants of "compañero"
Frequency rank: #1,629 in Spanish
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