índice
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,915
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
índice is aSpanishnoun. It means: Dedo índice. Pronounced [ˈĩn̪d̪ise]. It ranks #2,915 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with indio and Indie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | índice |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈĩn̪d̪ise] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for índice is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈĩn̪d̪ise]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,915 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for índice, with forms such as "nídice", "ídnice", and "índcie". 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, "indio", "Indie", "indios", 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 índice, spelled Í-N-D-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dedo índice.
- 2Indicio o señal de una cosa.
- 3Lista o enumeración breve, por orden, de libros, capítulos, o cosas notables.
- 4Catálogo contenido en uno o muchos volúmenes, en el cual, por orden alfabético o cronológico, están escritos los autores o materias de las obras que se conservan en una biblioteca, y sirve para hallarlos con facilidad y franquearlos con prontitud a cuantos los buscan o piden.
- 5Pieza o departamento donde está el catálogo, etc., en las bibliotecas públicas.
- 6Cada una de las manecillas de un reloj y, en general, las agujas y otros elementos indicadores de los instrumentos graduados, tales como barómetros, termómetros, higrómetros, etc.
- 7Gnomon de un cuadrante solar.
- 8Número o letra que se coloca en la abertura del signo radical y sirve para indicar el grado de la raíz.
- 9Lista ordenada de palabras o artículos que indica donde se encuentran.
- 10Símbolo de la mano derecha, también llamado puño.^([cita requerida])
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nídice,ídnice,índcie,índdice,índicce,índiec,índise,ínidce,ínndice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for índice
Misspelling Variants of "índice"
Frequency rank: #2,915 in Spanish
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