nuevo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#140
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
nuevo is anSpanishadj. It means: Que tiene poco tiempo de existencia. Pronounced [ˈnweβ̞o]. It ranks #140 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with nulo and nuez.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nuevo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈnweβ̞o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for nuevo is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnweβ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #140 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 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 nuevo, with forms such as "neuvo", "nnuevo", and "nuebo". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "nulo", "nuez", "número", 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 nuevo, spelled N-U-E-V-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que tiene poco tiempo de existencia.
- 2Recién salido de fábrica o acabado de comprar.
- 3Dicho de un producto, que sale por primera vez al mercado.
- 4Dicho de un alumno o empleado, que entra por primera vez a una institución educativa o sitio de trabajo.
- 5Dicho de un objeto, que se estrena o usa por primera vez.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: neuvo,nnuevo,nuebo,nueov,nuevvo,nuveo,unevo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nuevo
Misspelling Variants of "nuevo"
Frequency rank: #140 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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