infierno
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,987
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
infierno is aSpanishnoun. It means: Lugar ultramundano al que algunas doctrinas consideran que las almas de los muertos infortunados son llevadas tras su defunción. Pronounced [ĩɱˈfjeɾno]. It ranks #2,987 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with interno and invierno.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | infierno |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ĩɱˈfjeɾno] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for infierno is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩɱˈfjeɾno]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,987 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for infierno, with forms such as "ifnierno", "infeirno", and "inffierno". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "interno", "invierno", "inviernos", 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 infierno, spelled I-N-F-I-E-R-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lugar ultramundano al que algunas doctrinas consideran que las almas de los muertos infortunados son llevadas tras su defunción.
- 2En particular, para el cristianismo, el Islam y otras religiones, lugar ultramundano al que los pecadores irredentos son enviados tras la muerte para su eterno castigo.
- 3Por extensión, tormento al que estos son sometidos.
- 4Lugar de mucho alboroto y discordia.
- 5Lugar muy caluroso y agobiante.
- 6Situación de gran padecimiento y angustia.
- 7Lugar donde se pasan muchas calamidades y situaciones aciagas y adversas.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ifnierno,infeirno,inffierno,infienro,infiernno,infieron,infierrno,infireno,iniferno,innfierno,nifierno
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for infierno
Misspelling Variants of "infierno"
Frequency rank: #2,987 in Spanish
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