esposas

/[esˈposas]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,113

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

14

similar word pairs

esposas is aSpanishnoun. It means: Utensilio formado por dos aros metálicos unidos por un eslabón que se colocan en las muñecas de una persona para limitar sus movimientos. Pronounced [esˈposas]. It ranks #8,113 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with esposo and esposos.

Key facts for esposas
PropertyValue
Headwordesposas
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[esˈposas]
Letters7
Frequency rank#8,113
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for esposas is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈposas]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,113 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Utensilio formado por dos aros metálicos unidos por un eslabón que se colocan en las muñecas de una persona para limitar sus movimientos.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for esposas, with forms such as "epsosas", "esopsas", and "espoass". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "esposo", "esposos", "esposa", 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 esposas, spelled E-S-P-O-S-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Utensilio formado por dos aros metálicos unidos por un eslabón que se colocan en las muñecas de una persona para limitar sus movimientos.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: epsosas,esopsas,espoass,esposass,espossas,espposas,espsoas,essposas,seposas

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for esposas

Misspelling Variants of "esposas"

epsosas7esopsas7espoass7esposass8espossas8espposas8espsoas7essposas8
Misspelling Variants of "esposas"

Frequency rank: #8,113 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "esposas"?
"esposas" is spelled E-S-P-O-S-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is [esˈposas].
What does "esposas" mean?
As a noun, "esposas" means: Utensilio formado por dos aros metálicos unidos por un eslabón que se colocan en las muñecas de una persona para limitar sus movimientos.
What words are commonly confused with "esposas"?
"esposas" is commonly confused with "esposo", "esposos", "esposa". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "esposas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "esposas" is [esˈposas]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "esposas" come from?
"esposas" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.