documento

/[d̪okuˈmẽn̪t̪o]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,569

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

documento is aSpanishnoun. It means: Texto escrito o impreso en papel que da fe de la veracidad de alguna cosa o soporte electrónico que, análogamente al documento en papel, guarda y refleja un contenido. Pronounced [d̪okuˈmẽn̪t̪o]. It ranks #1,569 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with documentos and documenta.

Key facts for documento
PropertyValue
Headworddocumento
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[d̪okuˈmẽn̪t̪o]
Letters9
Frequency rank#1,569
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for documento is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪okuˈmẽn̪t̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,569 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 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for documento, with forms such as "dcoumento", "ddocumento", and "doccumento". 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, "documentos", "documenta", "documental", 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 documento, spelled D-O-C-U-M-E-N-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Texto escrito o impreso en papel que da fe de la veracidad de alguna cosa o soporte electrónico que, análogamente al documento en papel, guarda y refleja un contenido.
  2. 2
    Cualquier cosa que da un testimonio sobre hechos históricos u ocurridos en otro lugar y fecha.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: dcoumento,ddocumento,doccumento,docmuento,docuemnto,documennto,documenot,documentto,documetno,docummento,documneto,doucmento,odcumento

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for documento

Misspelling Variants of "documento"

dcoumento9ddocumento10doccumento10docmuento9docuemnto9documennto10documenot9documentto10
Misspelling Variants of "documento"

Frequency rank: #1,569 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "documento"?
"documento" is spelled D-O-C-U-M-E-N-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is [d̪okuˈmẽn̪t̪o].
What does "documento" mean?
As a noun, "documento" means: Texto escrito o impreso en papel que da fe de la veracidad de alguna cosa o soporte electrónico que, análogamente al documento en papel, guarda y refleja un contenido.
What words are commonly confused with "documento"?
"documento" is commonly confused with "documentos", "documenta", "documental". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "documento"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "documento" is [d̪okuˈmẽn̪t̪o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "documento" come from?
"documento" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.