hijo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#327
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
hijo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Individuo respecto a cualquiera de sus progenitores. Pronounced [ˈixo]. It ranks #327 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Ho and hip.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hijo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈixo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hijo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈixo]. Corpus data places it at rank #327 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for hijo, with forms such as "hhijo", "hijjo", and "hioj". 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, "Ho", "hip", "his", 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 hijo, spelled H-I-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Individuo respecto a cualquiera de sus progenitores.
- 2Por extensión, cónyuge o pareja del hijo.
- 3Por extensión, persona con respecto a su linaje.
- 4Por extensión, persona con respecto al lugar en el que ha nacido o crecido.
- 5Por extensión, cosa cualquiera respecto de su autor, diseñador o inventor.
- 6Por extensión, religiosa respecto de su orden.
- 7Cosa animada o inanimada que procede de otra.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhijo,hijjo,hioj,hjio,ihjo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hijo
Misspelling Variants of "hijo"
Frequency rank: #327 in Spanish
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