homo omnium rerum mensura est
The verdict
“homo omnium rerum mensura est” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a proverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 29
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: El hombre es la medida de todas las cosas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homo omnium rerum mensura est |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proverb |
| IPA | /ˈho.mo ˈom.ni.um ˈre.rum ˈmen.su.ra ˈe.st/ |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “homo omnium rerum mensura est” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for homo omnium rerum mensura est is 29 letters long, classified as a proverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈho.mo ˈom.ni.um ˈre.rum ˈmen.su.ra ˈe.st/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "El hombre es la medida de todas las cosas.".
No misspelling variants are generated for homo omnium rerum mensura est 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 homo omnium rerum mensura est, spelled H-O-M-O- -O-M-N-I-U-M- -R-E-R-U-M- -M-E-N-S-U-R-A- -E-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1El hombre es la medida de todas las cosas.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is H-O-M-O- -O-M-N-I-U-M- -R-E-R-U-M- -M-E-N-S-U-R-A- -E-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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