igual
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#280
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
igual is anSpanishadj. It means: De la misma naturaleza, cantidad o calidad que otra cosa. Pronounced [iˈɣ̞wal]. It ranks #280 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with iguala and iguana.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | igual |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [iˈɣ̞wal] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for igual is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [iˈɣ̞wal]. Corpus data places it at rank #280 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for igual, with forms such as "giual", "igaul", and "iggual". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "iguala", "iguana", "iguales", 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 igual, spelled I-G-U-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De la misma naturaleza, cantidad o calidad que otra cosa.
- 2Liso, que no tiene cuestas ni profundidades. Al mismo nivel.
- 3Que tiene las mismas o comparables características en cualidad, tamaño o aspecto. Muy parecido.
- 4Proporcionado, en conveniente relación.
- 5Que no varía, que se mantiene en una misma condición a lo largo del tiempo.
- 6Que tiene el mismo valor, que se aprecia con la misma intensidad.
- 7De la misma clase o condición.
- 8Se aplica a las figuras que se pueden superponer de modo que coincidan en su totalidad.
- 9Dicho de una cantidad, equivalente o idéntica a otra.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: giual,igaul,iggual,iguall,igula,iugal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for igual
Misspelling Variants of "igual"
Frequency rank: #280 in Spanish
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