hermano
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#671
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
hermano is aSpanishnoun. It means: Persona que, con respecto a otra, comparte uno o ambos padres. Pronounced [eɾˈmano]. It ranks #671 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with humano and Hernán.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hermano |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eɾˈmano] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #671 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hermano is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eɾˈmano]. Corpus data places it at rank #671 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for hermano, with forms such as "ehrmano", "hemrano", and "heramno". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "humano", "Hernán", "hermoso", 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 hermano, spelled H-E-R-M-A-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Persona que, con respecto a otra, comparte uno o ambos padres.
- 2Específicamente, el hermano varón (por contraposición a germano).
- 3Por extensión, persona que, con respecto a otra, comparte una filiación moral, religiosa o afectiva.
- 4Miembro de una orden regular religiosa.
- 5Tratamiento que se dan mutuamente los cuñados.
- 6Lego o donado de una comunidad regular.
- 7Individuo de una hermandad o cofradía.
- 8Una cosa respecto de otra a que es semejante.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ehrmano,hemrano,heramno,hermanno,hermaon,hermmano,hermnao,herrmano,hhermano,hremano
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hermano
Misspelling Variants of "hermano"
Frequency rank: #671 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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