ensayo
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,403
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
ensayo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción de práctica realizada para perfeccionar la propia habilidad antes de ejecutarla pública y definitivamente. Pronounced [ẽnˈsaʝo]. It ranks #3,403 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with enseño and ensayos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ensayo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ẽnˈsaʝo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ensayo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽnˈsaʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,403 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for ensayo, with forms such as "enasyo", "ennsayo", and "ensaoy". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "enseño", "ensayos", "enano", 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 ensayo, spelled E-N-S-A-Y-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción de práctica realizada para perfeccionar la propia habilidad antes de ejecutarla pública y definitivamente.
- 2Escrito de formato libre donde el autor expone su punto de vista sobre un tema.
- 3Género literario al que pertenece este tipo de escrito.
- 4Análisis, experimento; operación por la cual se averigua algo.
- 5Operación por la cual se averigua el metal o metales que contiene la mena, y la proporción en que cada uno está con el peso de ella.
- 6Análisis de la moneda para descubrir su ley.
- 7Jugada en el rugby, en que un jugador de un equipo logra colocar la pelota en el suelo tras la línea de meta del equipo rival, anotando cinco puntos.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enasyo,ennsayo,ensaoy,ensayyo,enssayo,ensyao,esnayo,nesayo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ensayo
Misspelling Variants of "ensayo"
Frequency rank: #3,403 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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