espino
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,982
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
espino is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Crataegus spp.) Nombre dado a unas doscientas especies de árboles y arbustos, de la familia de las Rosáceas y género Crataegus, que se encuentran en zonas frías de Europa, Norteamérica y Asia. Tie... Pronounced [esˈpino]. Often confused with estilo and esposo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | espino |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [esˈpino] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for espino is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈpino]. Corpus data places it at rank #27,982 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 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 espino, with forms such as "epsino", "esipno", and "espinno". 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, "estilo", "esposo", "estaño", 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 espino, spelled E-S-P-I-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Crataegus spp.) Nombre dado a unas doscientas especies de árboles y arbustos, de la familia de las Rosáceas y género Crataegus, que se encuentran en zonas frías de Europa, Norteamérica y Asia. Tienen ramas espinosas, flores blancas o rosadas, y decorativos frutos con forma de bayas rojas que aparecen en otoño y permanecen en el árbol durante el invierno, lo que los convierte en apreciadas plantas de jardín.
- 2(Acacia caven) Árbol, de la familia de las Leguminosas (Fabaceae), espinoso, de flores amarillas y fruto característico en legumbre, que al madurar da una hermosa vaina dura y negra que contiene las semillas. Crece en tierras con poca agua y en los faldeos cordilleranos de América del Sur. Su madera es explotada para fabricar carbón vegetal. Es cultivado como arbusto de jardín.
- 3Nombre común que reciben en diferentes regiones diversas especies de plantas con tallos o ramas espinosos, entre ellos Genista anglica, Rhamnus lycioides y Berberis vulgaris.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epsino,esipno,espinno,espion,espnio,esppino,esspino,sepino
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "espino"
Frequency rank: #27,982 in Spanish
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