nieve
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,344
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
nieve is aSpanishnoun. It means: Precipitación atmosférica constituida por hielo cristalizado. Pronounced [ˈnjeβ̞e]. It ranks #3,344 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with nine and nuevo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nieve |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnjeβ̞e] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,344 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for nieve is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnjeβ̞e]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,344 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 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 nieve, with forms such as "ineve", "neive", and "niebe". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "nine", "nuevo", "nueva", 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 nieve, spelled N-I-E-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Precipitación atmosférica constituida por hielo cristalizado.
- 2Hielo cristalizado en su mayor parte con forma de estrellas hexagonales, ramificadas con características fractales, pero frecuentemente mezcladas con simples cristales. Estos cristales se aglomeran dando lugar a los copos de nieve.
- 3Manto blanco de estos cristales de hielo, que cubre las superficies bajo el efecto de una nevada.
- 4Época del año en la que nieva mucho.
- 5Tipo de helado preparado a base de agua congelada y sabor artificial.
- 6Cocaína.
- 7Color muy blanco.
- 8En un aparato de televisión o en algún receptor análogo, imagen que recuerda a la nieve que cae, por efecto de una interferencia electromagnética.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ineve,neive,niebe,nieev,nievve,nivee,nnieve
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nieve
Misspelling Variants of "nieve"
Frequency rank: #3,344 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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