infinitivo

/[ĩɱfiniˈt̪iβ̞o]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#60,094

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

infinitivo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Forma verbal que expresa una acción de forma impersonal atemporal y libre de cualquier otro aspecto verbal. En el idioma español, es la forma verbal indizada en los diccionarios, y la base a partir... Pronounced [ĩɱfiniˈt̪iβ̞o].

Key facts for infinitivo
PropertyValue
Headwordinfinitivo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ĩɱfiniˈt̪iβ̞o]
Letters10
Frequency rank#60,094
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of infinitivo in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for infinitivo is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩɱfiniˈt̪iβ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #60,094 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Forma verbal que expresa una acción de forma impersonal atemporal y libre de cualquier otro aspecto verbal. En el idioma español, es la forma verbal indizada en los diccionarios, y la base a partir...".

No misspelling variants are generated for infinitivo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 infinitivo, spelled I-N-F-I-N-I-T-I-V-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Forma verbal que expresa una acción de forma impersonal atemporal y libre de cualquier otro aspecto verbal. En el idioma español, es la forma verbal indizada en los diccionarios, y la base a partir de la cual se obtienen todas las conjugaciones verbales. Se caracteriza por las terminaciones -ar, -er e -ir.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #60,094 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "infinitivo"?
"infinitivo" is spelled I-N-F-I-N-I-T-I-V-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ĩɱfiniˈt̪iβ̞o].
What does "infinitivo" mean?
As a noun, "infinitivo" means: Forma verbal que expresa una acción de forma impersonal atemporal y libre de cualquier otro aspecto verbal. En el idioma español, es la forma verbal indizada en los diccionarios, y la base a partir...
How do you pronounce "infinitivo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "infinitivo" is [ĩɱfiniˈt̪iβ̞o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.