mestizo
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,135
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
mestizo is anSpanishadj. It means: Se dice de una persona que proviene de una mezcla racial, especialmente entre la europea y la indígena de América. Pronounced [mesˈt̪iso]. Often confused with metió and metido.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mestizo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [mesˈt̪iso] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #23,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mestizo is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mesˈt̪iso]. Corpus data places it at rank #23,135 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for mestizo, with forms such as "emstizo", "mesitzo", and "messtizo". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "metió", "metido", "místico", 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 mestizo, spelled M-E-S-T-I-Z-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se dice de una persona que proviene de una mezcla racial, especialmente entre la europea y la indígena de América.
- 2Se dice de una cultura o sociedad que se caracteriza por la mezcla entre tradiciones de origen geográfico diferente.
- 3Se dice de una planta o animal que resulta del cruce entre dos razas.
- 4Se dice de aquel perro que no tiene pedigrí.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emstizo,mesitzo,messtizo,mestioz,mestizzo,mesttizo,mestzio,metsizo,mmestizo,msetizo
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Misspelling Variants of "mestizo"
Frequency rank: #23,135 in Spanish
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