encuesta
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,711
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
encuesta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Conjunto de medidas tomadas para averiguar la verdad acerca de un hecho o asunto, especialmente judicial. Pronounced [ẽŋˈkwest̪a]. It ranks #2,711 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with expuesta and envuelta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encuesta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ẽŋˈkwest̪a] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for encuesta is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽŋˈkwest̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,711 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for encuesta, with forms such as "ecnuesta", "enccuesta", and "enceusta". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "expuesta", "envuelta", "encuestas", 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 encuesta, spelled E-N-C-U-E-S-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conjunto de medidas tomadas para averiguar la verdad acerca de un hecho o asunto, especialmente judicial.
- 2En particular, encuesta₁ realizada mediante la aplicación de cuestionarios estandarizados a una muestra relativamente extensa de la población a investigar, con el propósito de extraer inferencias estadísticas.
- 3Formulario empleado en una encuesta₂.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecnuesta,enccuesta,enceusta,encuesat,encuessta,encuestta,encuetsa,encuseta,enncuesta,enucesta,necuesta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for encuesta
Misspelling Variants of "encuesta"
Frequency rank: #2,711 in Spanish
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