hisopo

/[iˈsopo]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#71,121

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

hisopo is aSpanishnoun. It means: 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. Pronounced [iˈsopo].

Key facts for hisopo
PropertyValue
Headwordhisopo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[iˈsopo]
Letters6
Frequency rank#71,121
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of hisopo in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for hisopo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hisopo 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 hisopo, spelled H-I-S-O-P-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    Varilla de material flexible, con una bola de algodón en su extremo, usada para la higiene del canal auditivo.
  3. 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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Frequency rank: #71,121 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hisopo"?
"hisopo" is spelled H-I-S-O-P-O. The IPA pronunciation is [iˈsopo].
What does "hisopo" mean?
As a noun, "hisopo" means: 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.
How do you pronounce "hisopo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hisopo" is [iˈsopo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hisopo" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.