hiato
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#60,078
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
hiato is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pronunciación en diferentes sílabas de dos vocales seguidas dentro de una misma palabra. Pronounced [ˈjat̪o].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hiato |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈjat̪o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hiato is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjat̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #60,078 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hiato in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 hiato, spelled H-I-A-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pronunciación en diferentes sílabas de dos vocales seguidas dentro de una misma palabra.
- 2La demora natural que en español ocurre entre dos vocales fuertes (a, e, o).
- 3Artificio para ajustarse a la métrica, que consiste en dividir en dos sílabas una sinalefa.
- 4Separación temporal o espacial.
- 5Grieta.
- 6Fisura.
- 7Abertura del diafragma por donde pasa el esófago para conectarse con el estómago en el epigastrio.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #60,078 in Spanish
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