contexto
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,472
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
contexto is aSpanishnoun. It means: El entorno o las circunstancias que determinan, especifican o aclaran el significado de un evento o suceso. Pronounced [kõn̪ˈt̪ekst̪o]. It ranks #1,472 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with contrato and convento.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contexto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kõn̪ˈt̪ekst̪o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for contexto is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõn̪ˈt̪ekst̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,472 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for contexto, with forms such as "ccontexto", "cnotexto", and "conetxto". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "contrato", "convento", "contextos", 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 contexto, spelled C-O-N-T-E-X-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1El entorno o las circunstancias que determinan, especifican o aclaran el significado de un evento o suceso.
- 2El entorno lingüístico que acompaña una palabra u oración para poder determinar su significado.
- 3Trabazón.
- 4Tejido, enredo, unión de cosas enlazadas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccontexto,cnotexto,conetxto,conntexto,contetxo,contexot,contextto,contexxto,conttexto,contxeto,cotnexto,ocntexto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for contexto
Misspelling Variants of "contexto"
Frequency rank: #1,472 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: