instrumento

/[ĩnst̪ɾuˈmẽn̪t̪o]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,422

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

instrumento is aSpanishnoun. It means: Objeto o aparato, normalmente artificial, que se emplea para facilitar o posibilitar un trabajo, ampliando las capacidades naturales del cuerpo humano. Pronounced [ĩnst̪ɾuˈmẽn̪t̪o]. It ranks #3,422 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with instrumentos and instrumental.

Key facts for instrumento
PropertyValue
Headwordinstrumento
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ĩnst̪ɾuˈmẽn̪t̪o]
Letters11
Frequency rank#3,422
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for instrumento is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩnst̪ɾuˈmẽn̪t̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,422 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for instrumento, with forms such as "innstrumento", "insrtumento", and "insstrumento". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "instrumentos", "instrumental", 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 instrumento, spelled I-N-S-T-R-U-M-E-N-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Objeto o aparato, normalmente artificial, que se emplea para facilitar o posibilitar un trabajo, ampliando las capacidades naturales del cuerpo humano.
  2. 2
    Dispositivo diseñado para producir sonido musical.
  3. 3
    Objeto o entidad utilizada para lograr un fin.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: innstrumento,insrtumento,insstrumento,instrmuento,instrrumento,instruemnto,instrumennto,instrumenot,instrumentto,instrumetno,instrummento,instrumneto,insttrumento,insturmento,intsrumento,isntrumento,nistrumento

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for instrumento

Misspelling Variants of "instrumento"

innstrumento12insrtumento11insstrumento12instrmuento11instrrumento12instruemnto11instrumennto12instrumenot11
Misspelling Variants of "instrumento"

Frequency rank: #3,422 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "instrumento"?
"instrumento" is spelled I-N-S-T-R-U-M-E-N-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ĩnst̪ɾuˈmẽn̪t̪o].
What does "instrumento" mean?
As a noun, "instrumento" means: Objeto o aparato, normalmente artificial, que se emplea para facilitar o posibilitar un trabajo, ampliando las capacidades naturales del cuerpo humano.
What words are commonly confused with "instrumento"?
"instrumento" is commonly confused with "instrumentos", "instrumental". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "instrumento"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "instrumento" is [ĩnst̪ɾuˈmẽn̪t̪o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "instrumento" come from?
"instrumento" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.