ingenio
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,515
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
ingenio is aSpanishnoun. It means: Habilidad para componer, inventar o para hallar medios adecuados a un fin. Pronounced [ĩŋˈxenjo]. Often confused with intento and intenso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ingenio |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ĩŋˈxenjo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ingenio is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩŋˈxenjo]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,515 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.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 ingenio, with forms such as "ignenio", "inegnio", and "ingeino". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "intento", "intenso", "invento", 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 ingenio, spelled I-N-G-E-N-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Habilidad para componer, inventar o para hallar medios adecuados a un fin.
- 2Persona dotada de ingenio₁.
- 3Por extensión, habilidad para obtener lo que se busca.
- 4Por extensión, habilidad para entretener narrando o conversando, especialmente en temas graciosos.
- 5Herramienta compleja de múltiples piezas, usada para ayudar en el trabajo.
- 6En especial, ingenio₅ para la guerra.
- 7En especial, ingenio₅ para cortar uniformemente los cantos de los libros.
- 8En especial, ingenio₅ para elaborar azúcar a partir de la caña.
- 9Por extensión, fábrica y finca dedicadas a la elaboración de azúcar de caña.
- 10Fábrica de cera.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ignenio,inegnio,ingeino,ingennio,ingenoi,inggenio,ingneio,inngenio,nigenio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ingenio
Misspelling Variants of "ingenio"
Frequency rank: #10,515 in Spanish
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