espacio

/[esˈpasjo]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#625

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

13

similar word pairs

espacio is aSpanishnoun. It means: El contenido de un volumen, el conjunto de puntos, áreas ocupadas por un objeto. Pronounced [esˈpasjo]. It ranks #625 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with especie and estadio.

Key facts for espacio
PropertyValue
Headwordespacio
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[esˈpasjo]
Letters7
Frequency rank#625
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for espacio is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈpasjo]. Corpus data places it at rank #625 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for espacio, with forms such as "epsacio", "esapcio", and "espaccio". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "especie", "estadio", "espanto", 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 espacio, spelled E-S-P-A-C-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    El contenido de un volumen, el conjunto de puntos, áreas ocupadas por un objeto.
  2. 2
    La capacidad de almacenamiento de un lugar.
  3. 3
    Distancia o separación entre dos objetos o dos lugares.
  4. 4
    Extensión formada por una estructura de varias dimensiones que es ocupada por los cuerpos, sus trayectorias, la radiación, las ondas, etc.
  5. 5
    Es un espacio euclideano de tres dimensiones, donde cualquier punto puede ser representado por tres coordenadas.
  6. 6
    Es un conjunto de elementos con características comunes y con alguna estructura definida.
  7. 7
    El conjunto de lugares mas allá de las atmósferas de los planetas y que esta compuesto principalmente de vacío.
  8. 8
    Separación entre líneas o entre palabras o entre letras en un documento impreso.
  9. 9
    un campo que se comporta como un sólido sin coordenadas que se entiende como un valor y con efectividad sólo por la experiencia que de él se tenga. (Las dimensiones o coordenadas no se ven; se saben).
  10. 10
    Intervalo de tiempo.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: epsacio,esapcio,espaccio,espacoi,espaico,espasio,espcaio,esppacio,esspacio,sepacio

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for espacio

Misspelling Variants of "espacio"

epsacio7esapcio7espaccio8espacoi7espaico7espasio7espcaio7esppacio8
Misspelling Variants of "espacio"

Frequency rank: #625 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "espacio"?
"espacio" is spelled E-S-P-A-C-I-O. The IPA pronunciation is [esˈpasjo].
What does "espacio" mean?
As a noun, "espacio" means: El contenido de un volumen, el conjunto de puntos, áreas ocupadas por un objeto.
What words are commonly confused with "espacio"?
"espacio" is commonly confused with "especie", "estadio", "espanto". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "espacio"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "espacio" is [esˈpasjo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "espacio" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.