cosmético

/[kosˈmet̪iko]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#62,947

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

cosmético is aSpanishnoun. It means: Producto o sustancia que sirve para cuidar, limpiar o embellecer el cuerpo humano. Pronounced [kosˈmet̪iko].

Key facts for cosmético
PropertyValue
Headwordcosmético
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kosˈmet̪iko]
Letters9
Frequency rank#62,947
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cosmético in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cosmético is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kosˈmet̪iko]. Corpus data places it at rank #62,947 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Producto o sustancia que sirve para cuidar, limpiar o embellecer el cuerpo humano.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cosmético in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 cosmético, spelled C-O-S-M-É-T-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Producto o sustancia que sirve para cuidar, limpiar o embellecer el cuerpo humano.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #62,947 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cosmético"?
"cosmético" is spelled C-O-S-M-É-T-I-C-O. The IPA pronunciation is [kosˈmet̪iko].
What does "cosmético" mean?
As a noun, "cosmético" means: Producto o sustancia que sirve para cuidar, limpiar o embellecer el cuerpo humano.
How do you pronounce "cosmético"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cosmético" is [kosˈmet̪iko]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cosmético" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.