impuesto

/[ĩmˈpwest̪o]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,029

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

impuesto is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cuota obligatoria pagada por individuos o instituciones a un gobierno central o local. Pronounced [ĩmˈpwest̪o]. It ranks #2,029 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with impuso and impulso.

Key facts for impuesto
PropertyValue
Headwordimpuesto
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ĩmˈpwest̪o]
Letters8
Frequency rank#2,029
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of impuesto in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for impuesto is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩmˈpwest̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,029 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cuota obligatoria pagada por individuos o instituciones a un gobierno central o local.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for impuesto, with forms such as "immpuesto", "impeusto", and "imppuesto". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "impuso", "impulso", "impuestos", 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 impuesto, spelled I-M-P-U-E-S-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cuota obligatoria pagada por individuos o instituciones a un gobierno central o local.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: immpuesto,impeusto,imppuesto,impuesot,impuessto,impuestto,impuetso,impuseto,imupesto,ipmuesto,mipuesto

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for impuesto

Misspelling Variants of "impuesto"

immpuesto9impeusto8imppuesto9impuesot8impuessto9impuestto9impuetso8impuseto8
Misspelling Variants of "impuesto"

Frequency rank: #2,029 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "impuesto"?
"impuesto" is spelled I-M-P-U-E-S-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ĩmˈpwest̪o].
What does "impuesto" mean?
As a noun, "impuesto" means: Cuota obligatoria pagada por individuos o instituciones a un gobierno central o local.
What words are commonly confused with "impuesto"?
"impuesto" is commonly confused with "impuso", "impulso", "impuestos". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "impuesto"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "impuesto" is [ĩmˈpwest̪o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "impuesto" come from?
"impuesto" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.