índigo
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#54,635
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
índigo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Color azul muy intenso, próximo al violeta. Pronounced [ˈĩn̪d̪iɣ̞o].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | índigo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈĩn̪d̪iɣ̞o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for índigo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈĩn̪d̪iɣ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #54,635 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for índigo in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 índigo, spelled Í-N-D-I-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Color azul muy intenso, próximo al violeta.
- 2(Indigofera tinctoria) Arbusto asiático, de la familia de las fabáceas, cultivado desde la Antigüedad por el pigmento de intenso color azul que se obtiene de la fermentación de sus hojas. Es una planta perenne en climas adecuadas, con hojas pinnadas de color verde intenso e inflorescencias en espiga de vistoso color rosado. Por su capacidad de fijar el nitrógeno en el suelo, se cultiva en rotación con otras plantaciones de interés comercial, y como fuente de tinte natural aún en la actualidad.
- 3Pigmento azul obtenido de esta planta.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #54,635 in Spanish
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