municipio

/[muniˈsipjo]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,738

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

municipio is aSpanishnoun. It means: Subdivisión administrativa menor o al conjunto de habitantes de dicho territorio, que puede incluir varias poblaciones, regido por un órgano colegiado generalmente denominado ayuntamiento, municipa... Pronounced [muniˈsipjo]. It ranks #1,738 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with municipios and municipal.

Key facts for municipio
PropertyValue
Headwordmunicipio
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[muniˈsipjo]
Letters9
Frequency rank#1,738
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for municipio is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [muniˈsipjo]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,738 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 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 municipio, with forms such as "mmunicipio", "mnuicipio", and "muincipio". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "municipios", "municipal", 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 municipio, spelled M-U-N-I-C-I-P-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Subdivisión administrativa menor o al conjunto de habitantes de dicho territorio, que puede incluir varias poblaciones, regido por un órgano colegiado generalmente denominado ayuntamiento, municipalidad, alcaldía o concejo.
  2. 2
    Por extensión, también se usa para referirse al ayuntamiento o municipalidad en sí.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: mmunicipio,mnuicipio,muincipio,munciipio,municcipio,municiipo,municipoi,municippio,municpiio,muniicpio,munisipio,munnicipio,umnicipio

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for municipio

Misspelling Variants of "municipio"

mmunicipio10mnuicipio9muincipio9munciipio9municcipio10municiipo9municipoi9municippio10
Misspelling Variants of "municipio"

Frequency rank: #1,738 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "municipio"?
"municipio" is spelled M-U-N-I-C-I-P-I-O. The IPA pronunciation is [muniˈsipjo].
What does "municipio" mean?
As a noun, "municipio" means: Subdivisión administrativa menor o al conjunto de habitantes de dicho territorio, que puede incluir varias poblaciones, regido por un órgano colegiado generalmente denominado ayuntamiento, municipa...
What words are commonly confused with "municipio"?
"municipio" is commonly confused with "municipios", "municipal". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "municipio"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "municipio" is [muniˈsipjo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "municipio" come from?
"municipio" 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.