ermitaño
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,065
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
ermitaño is aSpanishnoun. It means: Religioso de vida solitaria, dedicado a la oración y el sacrificio. Pronounced [eɾmiˈt̪aɲo]. Often confused with ermita and emitan.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ermitaño |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eɾmiˈt̪aɲo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ermitaño is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eɾmiˈt̪aɲo]. Corpus data places it at rank #30,065 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for ermitaño, with forms such as "emritaño", "erimtaño", and "ermiatño". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "ermita", "emitan", 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 ermitaño, spelled E-R-M-I-T-A-Ñ-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Religioso de vida solitaria, dedicado a la oración y el sacrificio.
- 2Religioso cuidador de una ermita en la que habita.
- 3Persona solitaria que rehúye la compañía de los demás.
- 4Crustáceo decápodo que vive en los caparazones vacíos de caracoles.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emritaño,erimtaño,ermiatño,ermitaoñ,ermittaño,ermitñao,ermmitaño,ermtiaño,errmitaño,remitaño
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ermitaño
Misspelling Variants of "ermitaño"
Frequency rank: #30,065 in Spanish
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