ego
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ego |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈeɣ̞o] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Conciencia de la persona humana, en especial en cuanto es capaz de percibir la realidad
- 2En 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
- 3Valoración positiva que un sujeto hace de sí mismo
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #6,904 in Spanish
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