gusto
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#914
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
gusto is aSpanishnoun. It means: Uno de los cinco sentidos por los que los seres vivos perciben su entorno. Es este caso mediante el sabor, a través de las papilas gustativas. Pronounced [ˈgust̪o]. It ranks #914 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with gustos and Gus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gusto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgust̪o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gusto is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgust̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #914 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for gusto, with forms such as "ggusto", "gsuto", and "gusot". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gustos", "Gus", "gato", 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 gusto, spelled G-U-S-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Uno de los cinco sentidos por los que los seres vivos perciben su entorno. Es este caso mediante el sabor, a través de las papilas gustativas.
- 2Sensación que produce algo en las papilas gustativas.
- 3Percepción o emoción agradable, de placer o deleite.
- 4Voluntad de una persona; disposición.
- 5Facultad para discernir o establecer qué es estético o bello y qué no.
- 6Modo que tiene cada persona para apreciar las cosas.
- 7Conjunto de preferencias, en particular artísticas o estéticas, de una sociedad, cultura, grupo o época.
- 8Cualidad que hace a algo bello, elegante o estético.
- 9Acción, decisión u objeto tomados solamente porque causan placer en un momento dado.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggusto,gsuto,gusot,gussto,gustto,gutso,ugsto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gusto
Misspelling Variants of "gusto"
Frequency rank: #914 in Spanish
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