hipermercado
The verdict
“hipermercado” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #73,717 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #73,717
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Gran superficie comercial donde suele haber todo tipo de mercancías para la casa, desde alimentación y productos de limpieza hasta ropa o menaje.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hipermercado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ipeɾmeɾˈkað̞o] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #73,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hipermercado” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hipermercado is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ipeɾmeɾˈkað̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #73,717 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Gran superficie comercial donde suele haber todo tipo de mercancías para la casa, desde alimentación y productos de limpieza hasta ropa o menaje.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hipermercado in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 hipermercado, spelled H-I-P-E-R-M-E-R-C-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gran superficie comercial donde suele haber todo tipo de mercancías para la casa, desde alimentación y productos de limpieza hasta ropa o menaje.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #73,717 in Spanish
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Using “hipermercado”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is H-I-P-E-R-M-E-R-C-A-D-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ipeɾmeɾˈkað̞o] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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