hierro

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The Spanish entry for hierro is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjero]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,781 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Elemento químico con número atómico 26 cuyo símbolo es Fe. Pertenece al grupo de los metales de transición. Es un metal que se conoce desde la prehistoria y tiene propiedades ferromagnéticas (como ...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for hierro, with forms such as "heirro", "hhierro", and "hiero". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "hirió", "huerto", "hierve", 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 hierro, spelled H-I-E-R-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.