Homo sapiens
[ˈomo saˈpjẽns]
The verdict
“Homo sapiens” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Única especie del género Homo no extinta en la actualidad, perteneciente a la Familia Hominidae del Orden Primates junto con los gorilas, chimpancés y orangutanes. Son primates sociales con capacid...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Homo sapiens |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈomo saˈpjẽns] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Homo sapiens” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Homo sapiens is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈomo saˈpjẽns]. 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: "Única especie del género Homo no extinta en la actualidad, perteneciente a la Familia Hominidae del Orden Primates junto con los gorilas, chimpancés y orangutanes. Son primates sociales con capacid...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Homo sapiens in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is Homo sapiens, spelled H-O-M-O- -S-A-P-I-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Única especie del género Homo no extinta en la actualidad, perteneciente a la Familia Hominidae del Orden Primates junto con los gorilas, chimpancés y orangutanes. Son primates sociales con capacidad de pensamiento abstracto lo que les ha permitido desarrollar la ciencia, la tecnología y el arte, así como transmitir conocimientos y experiencias entre individuos mediante el lenguaje y la escritura. Los restos más antiguos atribuidos a Homo sapiens se han encontrado en el norte de África y datado en algo más de 300 000 años.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Homo sapiens”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is H-O-M-O- -S-A-P-I-E-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈomo saˈpjẽns] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.