esposas
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esposas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [esˈposas] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Utensilio 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
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Misspelling Variants of "esposas"
Frequency rank: #8,113 in Spanish
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