ništa
The verdict
“ništa” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a pronoun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 5
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Nada
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ništa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /niʃta/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ništa” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ništa is 5 letters long, classified as a pronoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /niʃta/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nada".
No misspelling variants are generated for ništa in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 ništa, spelled N-I-Š-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nada
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Using “ništa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is N-I-Š-T-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /niʃta/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Nearby Spanish words
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