impulso
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,344
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
impulso is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de impulsar. Pronounced [ĩmˈpulso]. It ranks #4,344 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with impuso and impulsos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impulso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ĩmˈpulso] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,344 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for impulso is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩmˈpulso]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,344 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for impulso, with forms such as "immpulso", "impluso", and "imppulso". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "impuso", "impulsos", "impulsor", 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 impulso, spelled I-M-P-U-L-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de impulsar.
- 2Sugestión o instigación.
- 3Dícese del estímulo que se hace en la promoción de algo.
- 4Fuerza con que a veces se actúa de manera rápida y sin haber reflexionado.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: immpulso,impluso,imppulso,impullso,impulos,impulsso,impuslo,imuplso,ipmulso,mipulso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for impulso
Misspelling Variants of "impulso"
Frequency rank: #4,344 in Spanish
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