-ez

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for -ez is 3 letters long, classified as asuffix, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈes]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Forma sustantivos abstractos femeninos que indican "cualidad de" un adjetivo base.".

No misspelling variants are generated for -ez in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 -ez, spelled --E-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.