empero
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,618
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
empero is aSpanishconj. It means: Conjunción adversativa que se usa, generalmente pospuesta, para introducir una frase que contradice o contrasta con lo antecedente. Pronounced [ẽmˈpeɾo]. Often confused with enero and espero.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Conj |
| IPA | [ẽmˈpeɾo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #25,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for empero is 6 letters long, classified as aconj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽmˈpeɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #25,618 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Conjunción adversativa que se usa, generalmente pospuesta, para introducir una frase que contradice o contrasta con lo antecedente.".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for empero, with forms such as "emepro", "emmpero", and "empeor". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "enero", "espero", "espera", 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 empero, spelled E-M-P-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conjunción adversativa que se usa, generalmente pospuesta, para introducir una frase que contradice o contrasta con lo antecedente.
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Also misspelled as: emepro,emmpero,empeor,emperro,emppero,empreo,epmero,mepero
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for empero
Misspelling Variants of "empero"
Frequency rank: #25,618 in Spanish
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