ego

/[ˈeɣ̞o]/ noun

Letters

3 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,904

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

ego is aSpanishnoun. It means: Conciencia de la persona humana, en especial en cuanto es capaz de percibir la realidad Pronounced [ˈeɣ̞o]. It ranks #6,904 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with en and él.

Key facts for ego
PropertyValue
Headwordego
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈeɣ̞o]
Letters3
Frequency rank#6,904
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for ego is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈeɣ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,904 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ego in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "en", "él", "ex", 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 ego, spelled E-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Conciencia de la persona humana, en especial en cuanto es capaz de percibir la realidad
  2. 2
    En el modelo estructural de Freud, fuerza psíquica desarrollada de acuerdo al principio de realidad, que media entre las regiones conscientes e inconscientes de la vida psíquica llevando a cabo varias funciones, entre ellas la memoria, la sensación, la defensa psíquica y el análisis racional
  3. 3
    Valoración positiva que un sujeto hace de sí mismo

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #6,904 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ego"?
"ego" is spelled E-G-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈeɣ̞o].
What does "ego" mean?
As a noun, "ego" means: Conciencia de la persona humana, en especial en cuanto es capaz de percibir la realidad
What words are commonly confused with "ego"?
"ego" is commonly confused with "en", "él", "ex". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ego"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ego" is [ˈeɣ̞o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ego" come from?
"ego" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter E in our Spanish index:

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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.