Héctor
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,189
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
Héctor is aSpanishname. It means: Príncipe troyano encargado, en la Guerra de Troya, de la defensa de la ciudad frente a las hostilidades de los aqueos, hasta su muerte a manos de Aquiles. Era conocido como el domador de caballos. Pronounced [ˈekt̪oɾ]. It ranks #6,189 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with hedor and hecho.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Héctor |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | [ˈekt̪oɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Héctor is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈekt̪oɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,189 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Héctor, with forms such as "hcétor", "hhéctor", and "hécctor". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "hedor", "hecho", "hechos", 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 Héctor, spelled H-É-C-T-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Príncipe troyano encargado, en la Guerra de Troya, de la defensa de la ciudad frente a las hostilidades de los aqueos, hasta su muerte a manos de Aquiles. Era conocido como el domador de caballos.
- 2Nombre de pila de varón.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hcétor,hhéctor,hécctor,hécotr,héctorr,héctro,hécttor,hétcor,éhctor
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Misspelling Variants of "Héctor"
Frequency rank: #6,189 in Spanish
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