hueso
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,316
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
hueso is aSpanishnoun. It means: Material con el que están hechos los esqueletos de la mayoría de los animales vertebrados. Está compuesto principalmente de carbonato de calcio, fosfato de calcio y colágeno. Pronounced [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝eso]. It ranks #5,316 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Hugo and humo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hueso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝eso] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hueso is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝eso]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,316 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 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 hueso, with forms such as "heuso", "hhueso", and "hueos". 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, "Hugo", "humo", "huyó", 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 hueso, spelled H-U-E-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Material con el que están hechos los esqueletos de la mayoría de los animales vertebrados. Está compuesto principalmente de carbonato de calcio, fosfato de calcio y colágeno.
- 2Cualquiera de los componentes de un endoesqueleto, hecho de hueso₁.
- 3Envoltura muy dura de celulosa, que se encuentra en el centro de algunos frutos (drupas) y contiene la semilla, como en la ciruela y el durazno.
- 4Despojos mortales de un ser humano.
- 5Puesto de trabajo de nivel medio o alto en una organización.
- 6Espectáculo o chiste muy malo.
- 7Persona mezquina o tacaña.
- 8Artículo muy difícil de vender, ya sea porque no satisface necesidades, está pasado de moda, no tiene utilidad práctica o es de mala calidad.
- 9Por extensión, negocio que no es rentable, que no produce beneficios o que no tiene clientes ni ventas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: heuso,hhueso,hueos,huseo,uheso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hueso
Misspelling Variants of "hueso"
Frequency rank: #5,316 in Spanish
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