monumento

/[monuˈmẽn̪t̪o]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,529

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

monumento is aSpanishnoun. It means: Obra pública y patente puesta en memoria de una acción, persona u otra cosa singular. Pronounced [monuˈmẽn̪t̪o]. It ranks #4,529 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with monumentos and momento.

Key facts for monumento
PropertyValue
Headwordmonumento
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[monuˈmẽn̪t̪o]
Letters9
Frequency rank#4,529
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for monumento is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [monuˈmẽn̪t̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,529 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for monumento, with forms such as "mmonumento", "mnoumento", and "monmuento". 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, "monumentos", "momento", "monumental", 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 monumento, spelled M-O-N-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
    Obra pública y patente puesta en memoria de una acción, persona u otra cosa singular.
  2. 2
    Túmulo, altar o aparato que el jueves santo se forma en las iglesias, colocando en él, en un arquita a manera de sepulcro, la segunda hostia que se consagra en la misa de aquel día, para reservarla hasta los oficios del viernes santo, en que se consume.
  3. 3
    Objeto o documento de utilidad para la historia.
  4. 4
    Obra, por lo común de piedra, que se construye levantada del suelo, para dar en ella sepultura al cadáver de una persona y honrar y hacer más duradera su memoria.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: mmonumento,mnoumento,monmuento,monnumento,monuemnto,monumennto,monumenot,monumentto,monumetno,monummento,monumneto,mounmento,omnumento

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for monumento

Misspelling Variants of "monumento"

mmonumento10mnoumento9monmuento9monnumento10monuemnto9monumennto10monumenot9monumentto10
Misspelling Variants of "monumento"

Frequency rank: #4,529 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "monumento"?
"monumento" is spelled M-O-N-U-M-E-N-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is [monuˈmẽn̪t̪o].
What does "monumento" mean?
As a noun, "monumento" means: Obra pública y patente puesta en memoria de una acción, persona u otra cosa singular.
What words are commonly confused with "monumento"?
"monumento" is commonly confused with "monumentos", "momento", "monumental". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "monumento"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "monumento" is [monuˈmẽn̪t̪o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "monumento" come from?
"monumento" 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.