femenino

/[femeˈnino]/ adj

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,555

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

femenino is anSpanishadj. It means: Uno de los dos géneros gramaticales tradicionales, correspondiente a los sustantivos (y a sus adjetivos y adyacentes) que al ir acompañados de un adjetivo que pueda presentar las dos terminaciones:... Pronounced [femeˈnino]. It ranks #3,555 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with femeninos and femenil.

Key facts for femenino
PropertyValue
Headwordfemenino
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdj
IPA[femeˈnino]
Letters8
Frequency rank#3,555
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for femenino is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [femeˈnino]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,555 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for femenino, with forms such as "efmenino", "feemnino", and "femeinno". 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, "femeninos", "femenil", "femenina", 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 femenino, spelled F-E-M-E-N-I-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Uno de los dos géneros gramaticales tradicionales, correspondiente a los sustantivos (y a sus adjetivos y adyacentes) que al ir acompañados de un adjetivo que pueda presentar las dos terminaciones: -o y -a exige que éste, el adjetivo, lleve la terminación -a.
  2. 2
    Que toma las formas o características propias de este género.
  3. 3
    Relativo a la mujer.
  4. 4
    Propio de la mujer. Que se comporta como lo suelen hacer las mujeres o es característico de ellas.
  5. 5
    Que tiene órganos receptores en la fecundación.
  6. 6
    Débil, endeble.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: efmenino,feemnino,femeinno,femeninno,femenion,femennino,femennio,femmenino,femneino,ffemenino,fmeenino

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for femenino

Misspelling Variants of "femenino"

efmenino8feemnino8femeinno8femeninno9femenion8femennino9femennio8femmenino9
Misspelling Variants of "femenino"

Frequency rank: #3,555 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "femenino"?
"femenino" is spelled F-E-M-E-N-I-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is [femeˈnino].
What does "femenino" mean?
As an adj, "femenino" means: Uno de los dos géneros gramaticales tradicionales, correspondiente a los sustantivos (y a sus adjetivos y adyacentes) que al ir acompañados de un adjetivo que pueda presentar las dos terminaciones:...
What words are commonly confused with "femenino"?
"femenino" is commonly confused with "femeninos", "femenil", "femenina". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "femenino"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "femenino" is [femeˈnino]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "femenino" come from?
"femenino" 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.