ministro
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#792
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
ministro is aSpanishnoun. It means: El que ministra alguna cosa. Pronounced [miˈnist̪ɾo]. It ranks #792 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ministros and ministra.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ministro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [miˈnist̪ɾo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ministro is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [miˈnist̪ɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #792 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for ministro, with forms such as "imnistro", "miinstro", and "minisrto". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "ministros", "ministra", "ministerio", 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 ministro, spelled M-I-N-I-S-T-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1El que ministra alguna cosa.
- 2Juez que se emplea en la administración de justicia.
- 3El que está empleado en el gobierno para la resolución de los negocios políticos y económicos.
- 4Jefe de cada uno de los departamentos en que se divide la gobernación del Estado, el cual es, con arreglo a la Constitución y a las leyes, responsable de todo lo que en su respectivo ramo se ordena, y jefe supremo de todas las dependencias del mismo, en nombre y representación del rey, cuyos decretos ha de refrendar para que se estimen válidos y legítimos.
- 5Enviado.
- 6Cualquier representante o agente diplomático.
- 7En algunas religiones, prelado ordinario de cada convento.
- 8En la Compañía de Jesús, segundo prelado de los casas y colegios, que cuida del gobierno económico.
- 9Alguacil o cualquiera de los oficiales inferiores que ejecuta los mandatos y autos de los jueces.
- 10Persona o cosa que ejecuta lo que otra persona quiere o dispone.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imnistro,miinstro,minisrto,minisstro,ministor,ministrro,ministtro,minitsro,minnistro,minsitro,mministro,mniistro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ministro
Misspelling Variants of "ministro"
Frequency rank: #792 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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