inútil
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,086
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
inútil is anSpanishadj. It means: Aquello que no es útil, no sirve o no cumple su función. Pronounced [iˈnut̪il]. It ranks #4,086 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with inútiles and inti.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inútil |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [iˈnut̪il] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,086 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for inútil is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [iˈnut̪il]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,086 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for inútil, with forms such as "innútil", "intúil", and "inúitl". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "inútiles", "inti", 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 inútil, spelled I-N-Ú-T-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Aquello que no es útil, no sirve o no cumple su función.
- 2Incapacitado para realizar labores o movimientos a causa de impedimento físico.
- 3Perezoso, vago, gandul.
- 4Carente de lógica o sentido.
- 5Falto de aptitudes, inepto.
- 6Que no produce ningún resultado.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: innútil,intúil,inúitl,inútill,inútli,inúttil,iúntil,niútil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "inútil"
Frequency rank: #4,086 in Spanish
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