museo

/[muˈseo]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,867

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

museo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Institución pública o privada, sin fines de lucro, al servicio de la sociedad y abierta al público, que adquiere, conserva, investiga, comunica y expone o exhibe, con propósitos de estudio, educaci... Pronounced [muˈseo]. It ranks #1,867 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with must and mute.

Key facts for museo
PropertyValue
Headwordmuseo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[muˈseo]
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,867
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for museo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [muˈseo]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,867 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 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for museo, with forms such as "mmuseo", "msueo", and "muceo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "must", "mute", "music", 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 museo, spelled M-U-S-E-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Institución pública o privada, sin fines de lucro, al servicio de la sociedad y abierta al público, que adquiere, conserva, investiga, comunica y expone o exhibe, con propósitos de estudio, educación y deleite colecciones de arte, científicas, etc., siempre con un valor cultural.
  2. 2
    Espacio o edificio donde se exhiben objetos de interés turístico.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: mmuseo,msueo,muceo,mueso,musoe,musseo,umseo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for museo

Misspelling Variants of "museo"

mmuseo6msueo5muceo5mueso5musoe5musseo6umseo5
Misspelling Variants of "museo"

Frequency rank: #1,867 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "museo"?
"museo" is spelled M-U-S-E-O. The IPA pronunciation is [muˈseo].
What does "museo" mean?
As a noun, "museo" means: Institución pública o privada, sin fines de lucro, al servicio de la sociedad y abierta al público, que adquiere, conserva, investiga, comunica y expone o exhibe, con propósitos de estudio, educaci...
What words are commonly confused with "museo"?
"museo" is commonly confused with "must", "mute", "music". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "museo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "museo" is [muˈseo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "museo" come from?
"museo" 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.