huevo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,667
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
huevo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cuerpo unicelular, de forma esférica u elíptica, que aloja al embrión de numerosas especies de animales invertebrados, así como de peces, reptiles y aves durante la primera fase de su desarrollo, p... Pronounced [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝eβ̞o]. It ranks #2,667 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Hugo and humo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | huevo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝eβ̞o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for huevo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝eβ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,667 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 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for huevo, with forms such as "heuvo", "hhuevo", and "huebo". 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 huevo, spelled H-U-E-V-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cuerpo unicelular, de forma esférica u elíptica, que aloja al embrión de numerosas especies de animales invertebrados, así como de peces, reptiles y aves durante la primera fase de su desarrollo, proporcionándole los compuestos nutritivos que éste necesita.
- 2Sustancia de este cuerpo, usada para la alimentación.
- 3Por extensión, cuerpo cualquiera de forma ovoide.
- 4Célula resultante de la fecundación de los gametos en la reproducción sexual en su forma más temprana, que devendrá en el embrión.
- 5Gameto que aporta el miembro femenino en la reproducción sexual.
- 6Testículo.
- 7Tarea de difícil o ardua solución.
- 8Persona de escasa inteligencia.
- 9Gran cantidad de una cosa.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: heuvo,hhuevo,huebo,hueov,huevvo,huveo,uhevo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for huevo
Misspelling Variants of "huevo"
Frequency rank: #2,667 in Spanish
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