hito
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,592
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
hito is aSpanishnoun. It means: Piedra o columna que, fijada en el suelo y convenientemente indicada, marca la dirección en los caminos, las distancias y los límites de un territorio o propiedad. Pronounced [ˈit̪o]. Often confused with Ho and hot.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hito |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈit̪o] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hito is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈit̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,592 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 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 hito, with forms such as "hhito", "hiot", and "hitto". 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", "hot", "hut", 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 hito, spelled H-I-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Piedra o columna que, fijada en el suelo y convenientemente indicada, marca la dirección en los caminos, las distancias y los límites de un territorio o propiedad.
- 2Persona, momento, acontecimiento u objeto que sirven como punto de referencia por considerarse claves o fundamentales.
- 3Centro al que se apunta para acertar en un tiro o disparo.
- 4Actividad lúdica que consiste en fijar un poste o clavo en el suelo para engarzar en él herraduras, discos, arandelas u objetos similares lanzados desde cierta distancia.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhito,hiot,hitto,htio,ihto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hito
Misspelling Variants of "hito"
Frequency rank: #11,592 in Spanish
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