contempla
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,934
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
contempla is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de contemplar. Pronounced [kõn̪ˈt̪ẽmpla]. It ranks #8,934 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with contemplo and contemplan.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contempla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kõn̪ˈt̪ẽmpla] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for contempla is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõn̪ˈt̪ẽmpla]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,934 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 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 contempla, with forms such as "ccontempla", "cnotempla", and "conetmpla". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "contemplo", "contemplan", "contemplado", 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 contempla, spelled C-O-N-T-E-M-P-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de contemplar.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de contemplar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccontempla,cnotempla,conetmpla,conntempla,contemlpa,contemmpla,contempal,contemplla,contemppla,contepmla,contmepla,conttempla,cotnempla,ocntempla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for contempla
Misspelling Variants of "contempla"
Frequency rank: #8,934 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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