hisopo
[iˈsopo]
The verdict
“hisopo” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #71,121 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #71,121
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pequeño aspersor, formado por una bola hueca o un haz de cerdas al cabo de un mango, con el que se distribuye agua bendita sobre los asistentes en algunas ceremonias de la Iglesia Católica.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hisopo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [iˈsopo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hisopo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hisopo is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [iˈsopo]. Corpus data places it at rank #71,121 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for hisopo in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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. The correct Spanish form is hisopo, spelled H-I-S-O-P-O.
Definition
- 1Pequeño aspersor, formado por una bola hueca o un haz de cerdas al cabo de un mango, con el que se distribuye agua bendita sobre los asistentes en algunas ceremonias de la Iglesia Católica.
- 2Varilla de material flexible, con una bola de algodón en su extremo, usada para la higiene del canal auditivo.
- 3(Hyssopus spp.) Cualquiera de varias especies de plantas herbáceas o subleñosas nativas de la Europa Meridional y el Medio Oriente, de hábito erecto y ramificado, con hojas lanceoladas u oblongas, de hasta 5 cm de largo, y unos 60 cm de altura total. Forma espigas de pequeñas flores blanquecinas, azules o violáceas, que aparecen en verano. Se lo consume como especia, y en tisana como expectorante y antitusivo.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “hisopo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is H-I-S-O-P-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [iˈsopo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.