empeñó

/[ẽmpeˈɲo]/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#56,289

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

empeñó is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de empeñar. Pronounced [ẽmpeˈɲo].

Key facts for empeñó
PropertyValue
Headwordempeñó
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ẽmpeˈɲo]
Letters6
Frequency rank#56,289
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for empeñó is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽmpeˈɲo]. Corpus data places it at rank #56,289 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de empeñar.".

No misspelling variants are generated for empeñó in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 empeñó, spelled E-M-P-E-Ñ-Ó, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de empeñar.

Frequency rank: #56,289 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "empeñó"?
"empeñó" is spelled E-M-P-E-Ñ-Ó. The IPA pronunciation is [ẽmpeˈɲo].
What does "empeñó" mean?
As a verb, "empeñó" means: Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de empeñar.
How do you pronounce "empeñó"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "empeñó" is [ẽmpeˈɲo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "empeñó" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.