esposo

/[esˈposo]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,659

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

18

similar word pairs

esposo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Hombre casado, con respecto de su cónyuge. Pronounced [esˈposo]. It ranks #2,659 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with estos and expuso.

Key facts for esposo
PropertyValue
Headwordesposo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[esˈposo]
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,659
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for esposo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈposo]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,659 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Hombre casado, con respecto de su cónyuge.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for esposo, with forms such as "epsoso", "esopso", and "espoos". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "estos", "expuso", "esposos", 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 esposo, spelled E-S-P-O-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Hombre casado, con respecto de su cónyuge.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: epsoso,esopso,espoos,esposso,espposo,espsoo,essposo,seposo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for esposo

Misspelling Variants of "esposo"

epsoso6esopso6espoos6esposso7espposo7espsoo6essposo7seposo6
Misspelling Variants of "esposo"

Frequency rank: #2,659 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "esposo"?
"esposo" is spelled E-S-P-O-S-O. The IPA pronunciation is [esˈposo].
What does "esposo" mean?
As a noun, "esposo" means: Hombre casado, con respecto de su cónyuge.
What words are commonly confused with "esposo"?
"esposo" is commonly confused with "estos", "expuso", "esposos". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "esposo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "esposo" is [esˈposo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "esposo" come from?
"esposo" 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.