ninguno

/[nĩŋˈguno]/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,299

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

ninguno is anSpanishadj. It means: Ni una sola de las cosas o personas señaladas por el sustantivo al que acompaña o sustituye este adjetivo indefinido. Pronounced [nĩŋˈguno]. It ranks #1,299 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ningún and ninguna.

Key facts for ninguno
PropertyValue
Headwordninguno
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdj
IPA[nĩŋˈguno]
Letters7
Frequency rank#1,299
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for ninguno is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [nĩŋˈguno]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,299 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ni una sola de las cosas o personas señaladas por el sustantivo al que acompaña o sustituye este adjetivo indefinido.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for ninguno, with forms such as "innguno", "nignuno", and "ningguno". 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, "ningún", "ninguna", 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 ninguno, spelled N-I-N-G-U-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ni una sola de las cosas o personas señaladas por el sustantivo al que acompaña o sustituye este adjetivo indefinido.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: innguno,nignuno,ningguno,ningnuo,ningunno,ninguon,ninnguno,ninugno,nniguno,nninguno

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ninguno

Misspelling Variants of "ninguno"

innguno7nignuno7ningguno8ningnuo7ningunno8ninguon7ninnguno8ninugno7
Misspelling Variants of "ninguno"

Frequency rank: #1,299 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ninguno"?
"ninguno" is spelled N-I-N-G-U-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is [nĩŋˈguno].
What does "ninguno" mean?
As an adj, "ninguno" means: Ni una sola de las cosas o personas señaladas por el sustantivo al que acompaña o sustituye este adjetivo indefinido.
What words are commonly confused with "ninguno"?
"ninguno" is commonly confused with "ningún", "ninguna". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ninguno"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ninguno" is [nĩŋˈguno]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ninguno" come from?
"ninguno" 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.