indígena
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,791
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
indígena is anSpanishadj. It means: Persona o cosa que es originaria de un lugar. Pronounced [ĩn̪ˈd̪ixena]. It ranks #3,791 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with indigna and indigno.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | indígena |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ĩn̪ˈd̪ixena] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for indígena is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩn̪ˈd̪ixena]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,791 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Persona o cosa que es originaria de un lugar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for indígena, with forms such as "idnígena", "inddígena", and "indgíena". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "indigna", "indigno", "indignan", 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 indígena, spelled I-N-D-Í-G-E-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Persona o cosa que es originaria de un lugar.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: idnígena,inddígena,indgíena,indíegna,indígean,indígenna,indíggena,indígnea,inndígena,inídgena,nidígena
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "indígena"
Frequency rank: #3,791 in Spanish
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