mosquito
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,905
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
mosquito is aSpanishnoun. It means: Insecto díptero volador pequeño de la familia Culicidae, conocido por su picadura con la que extrae sangre, sin embargo solo la hembra pica a animales y al hombre. Los mosquitos trasmiten enfermeda... Pronounced [mosˈkit̪o]. Often confused with mosquitos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mosquito |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [mosˈkit̪o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mosquito is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mosˈkit̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,905 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for mosquito, with forms such as "mmosquito", "moqsuito", and "mosqiuto". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "mosquitos", 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 mosquito, spelled M-O-S-Q-U-I-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Insecto díptero volador pequeño de la familia Culicidae, conocido por su picadura con la que extrae sangre, sin embargo solo la hembra pica a animales y al hombre. Los mosquitos trasmiten enfermedades como: la malaria, la fiebre amarilla y el dengue.
- 2(Drosophila) Mosca muy pequeña de color marronáceo llamada también mosca del vinagre o mosca de la fruta, que suele alimentarse de frutas muy maduras o substancias en fermentación ricas en fructosa. Es inofensiva.
- 3Cualquiera de los insectos dípteros parecidos al mosquito, que suelen vivir formando enjambres en lugares húmedos, como las charcas y las bodegas.
- 4Larva de la langosta.
- 5Hombre que acude frecuentemente a la taberna.
- 6Tractor de ruedas grandes y cabina pequeña que se usa para remolcar jaulas o carretones.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmosquito,moqsuito,mosqiuto,mosqquito,mosquiot,mosquitto,mosqutio,mossquito,mosuqito,msoquito,omsquito
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mosquito
Misspelling Variants of "mosquito"
Frequency rank: #18,905 in Spanish
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