esposa
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,111
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
esposa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mujer casada con respecto de su cónyuge. Pronounced [esˈposa]. It ranks #1,111 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with estos and esposo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esposa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [esˈposa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for esposa is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈposa]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,111 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 esposa, with forms such as "epsosa", "esopsa", and "espoas". 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, "estos", "esposo", "espuma", 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 esposa, spelled E-S-P-O-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mujer casada con respecto de su cónyuge.
- 2Mujer que ha formalizado su relación previa al matrimonio, celebrando los esponsales.
- 3Anillo que lleva el obispo cristiano como señal de su cargo.
- 4Anilla metálica unida a otra similar por una cadena, que sirve para atar las muñecas de los reos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epsosa,esopsa,espoas,espossa,espposa,espsoa,essposa,seposa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for esposa
Misspelling Variants of "esposa"
Frequency rank: #1,111 in Spanish
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