latino
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,521
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
latino is anSpanishadj. It means: Persona originaria o habitante del Lacio, antigua región de la península italiana. Pronounced [laˈt̪ino]. It ranks #4,521 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with lino and litio.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | latino |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [laˈt̪ino] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for latino is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [laˈt̪ino]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,521 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for latino, with forms such as "altino", "laitno", and "latinno". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "lino", "litio", "latir", 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 latino, spelled L-A-T-I-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Persona originaria o habitante del Lacio, antigua región de la península italiana.
- 2Se dice de algo que proviene o tiene relación con el Lacio, sus pueblos, su idioma y sus costumbres.
- 3Propio de la lengua latina.
- 4Propio de la iglesia cristiana de Occidente en contraposición con la de rito griego.
- 5Perteneciente o relativo aesta iglesia occidental.
- 6Perteneciente o relativo a los pueblos americanos y europeos que hablan lenguas derivadas del latín (como el italiano, rumano, español, francés y portugués)
- 7Persona originaria de uno de estos pueblos que habla un idioma derivado del latín.
- 8Persona de habla española y/o portuguesa originaria de Norteamérica (México), Centroamérica, el Caribe, Suramérica, España o Portugal y que vive en los Estados Unidos como inmigrante o desciendente de ellos. Puede poseer ya la nacionalidad estadounidense o estar aun aspirando a ella.
- 9Se dice de un tipo de vela triangular y del aparejo que la porta, así como de la embarcación que lleva tal tipo de vela.
- 10Que comprende el latín.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: altino,laitno,latinno,lation,latnio,lattino,llatino,ltaino
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for latino
Misspelling Variants of "latino"
Frequency rank: #4,521 in Spanish
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