incienso
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,529
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
incienso is aSpanishnoun. It means: Preparación de resinas aromáticas vegetales, a las que a menudo se añaden aceites esenciales de origen animal o vegetal, de forma que al arder desprenda un humo fragante con fines religiosos, terap... Pronounced [ĩnˈsjẽnso]. Often confused with inciso and intenso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incienso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ĩnˈsjẽnso] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for incienso is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩnˈsjẽnso]. Corpus data places it at rank #24,529 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for incienso, with forms such as "icnienso", "inccienso", and "inceinso". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "inciso", "intenso", "inmenso", 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 incienso, spelled I-N-C-I-E-N-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Preparación de resinas aromáticas vegetales, a las que a menudo se añaden aceites esenciales de origen animal o vegetal, de forma que al arder desprenda un humo fragante con fines religiosos, terapéuticos o estéticos.
- 2Tipo de gomorresina de color amarillo blancuzco o rojizo, proveniente de árboles asiáticos y africanos, que despide buen olor al arder y se empleó tradicionalmente en ceremonias religiosas.
- 3Dicho para adular, alabar, halagar, lisonjear o congraciarse, que se considera poco sincero.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: icnienso,inccienso,inceinso,inciennso,incienos,inciensso,inciesno,incineso,inicenso,inncienso,insienso,nicienso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for incienso
Misspelling Variants of "incienso"
Frequency rank: #24,529 in Spanish
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