natural

/[nat̪uˈɾal]/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#829

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

natural is anSpanishadj. It means: Relacionado con la naturaleza o propio de ella, ajeno a la intervención y creación humanas. Pronounced [nat̪uˈɾal]. It ranks #829 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with nature and neural.

Key facts for natural
PropertyValue
Headwordnatural
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdj
IPA[nat̪uˈɾal]
Letters7
Frequency rank#829
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for natural is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [nat̪uˈɾal]. Corpus data places it at rank #829 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for natural, with forms such as "antural", "natrual", and "nattural". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "nature", "neural", "naturales", 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 natural, spelled N-A-T-U-R-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relacionado con la naturaleza o propio de ella, ajeno a la intervención y creación humanas.
  2. 2
    Propio y característico de la esencia de alguna cosa, propio a la naturaleza de las cosas y seres.
  3. 3
    Se dice de la persona originaria de un lugar, nación o etnia.
  4. 4
    Se dice del ser o cosa originario de una región.
  5. 5
    Hecho con autenticidad, naturalidad, sin artificio o doblez.
  6. 6
    Que tiene sentido, que es razonable, corriente o parece normal.
  7. 7
    Que se asemeja a lo hecho por la naturaleza.
  8. 8
    Que está en el orden normal de las cosas que hace la naturaleza.
  9. 9
    Biológicamente cierto, pero no reconocido por las leyes.
  10. 10
    Se dice de quienes tenían derecho al señorío por linaje, aun no siendo de la tierra.
  11. 11
    Indígena.
  12. 12
    Se dice de la nota sin bemol o sostenido que la modifique.
  13. 13
    Se dice del hijo de indígenas puros, no mestizo.
  14. 14
    Dicho de un alimento, no sometido a procesos de industrialización.
  15. 15
    A temperatura ambiente, no frío, templado ni caliente.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: antural,natrual,nattural,natuarl,naturall,naturla,naturral,nautral,nnatural,ntaural

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for natural

Misspelling Variants of "natural"

antural7natrual7nattural8natuarl7naturall8naturla7naturral8nautral7
Misspelling Variants of "natural"

Frequency rank: #829 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "natural"?
"natural" is spelled N-A-T-U-R-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is [nat̪uˈɾal].
What does "natural" mean?
As an adj, "natural" means: Relacionado con la naturaleza o propio de ella, ajeno a la intervención y creación humanas.
What words are commonly confused with "natural"?
"natural" is commonly confused with "nature", "neural", "naturales". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "natural"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "natural" is [nat̪uˈɾal]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "natural" come from?
"natural" 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.