expediente
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,728
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
expediente is aSpanishnoun. It means: Asunto o causa que se tramita ante autoridad judicial, que se sigue sin juicio contradictorio. Pronounced [ekspeˈð̞jẽn̪t̪e]. It ranks #5,728 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with experience and expedientes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expediente |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ekspeˈð̞jẽn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #5,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for expediente is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ekspeˈð̞jẽn̪t̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,728 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for expediente, with forms such as "epxediente", "exepdiente", and "expdeiente". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "experience", "expedientes", "experimente", 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 expediente, spelled E-X-P-E-D-I-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Asunto o causa que se tramita ante autoridad judicial, que se sigue sin juicio contradictorio.
- 2En particular, causa que se abre contra alguien para evaluar la corrección de sus acciones.
- 3Conjunto ordenado de documentos que recogen toda la información relativa a un asunto o negocio.
- 4En particular, aquél que documenta todas las actuaciones de un funcionario.
- 5En particular, aquél que documenta todas las calificaciones de un alumno.
- 6Medio, arbitrio o partido que se toma para dar salida a una duda o dificultad, o salvar los inconvenientes que presenta la decisión o curso de una dependencia.
- 7Despacho, curso en los negocios y causas.
- 8Facilidad, desembarazo y prontitud en la decisión o manejo de los negocios u otras cosas.
- 9Avance parcial en la consecución de un asunto.
- 10Razón en la que se funda una decisión.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epxediente,exepdiente,expdeiente,expeddiente,expedeinte,expedienet,expediennte,expedientte,expedietne,expedinete,expeidente,exppediente,exxpediente,xepediente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for expediente
Misspelling Variants of "expediente"
Frequency rank: #5,728 in Spanish
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