esponsales

/[espõnˈsales]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#91,921

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

esponsales is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mutua promesa de casarse que se hacen y aceptan el varón y la mujer. Pronounced [espõnˈsales].

Key facts for esponsales
PropertyValue
Headwordesponsales
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[espõnˈsales]
Letters10
Frequency rank#91,921
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for esponsales is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [espõnˈsales]. Corpus data places it at rank #91,921 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for esponsales in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 esponsales, spelled E-S-P-O-N-S-A-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mutua promesa de casarse que se hacen y aceptan el varón y la mujer.
  2. 2
    Esta misma promesa cuando está hecha en alguna de las formas que la ley requiere para que surta algún efecto civil.

Frequency rank: #91,921 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "esponsales"?
"esponsales" is spelled E-S-P-O-N-S-A-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is [espõnˈsales].
What does "esponsales" mean?
As a noun, "esponsales" means: Mutua promesa de casarse que se hacen y aceptan el varón y la mujer.
How do you pronounce "esponsales"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "esponsales" is [espõnˈsales]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "esponsales" 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.