número
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#282
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
número is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cantidad con relación a su unidad. Pronounced [ˈnumeɾo]. It ranks #282 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with números and numerosa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | número |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnumeɾo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for número is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnumeɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #282 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for número, with forms such as "nmúero", "nnúmero", and "núemro". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "números", "numerosa", "numeroso", 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 número, spelled N-Ú-M-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cantidad con relación a su unidad.
- 2Conjunto de signos con que se representa tal cantidad.
- 3En una publicación periódica, cada uno de los cuadernos correspondientes a una fecha de edición distinta.
- 4Cada una de las partes del programa de un espectáculo o función destinada al público.
- 5Acción indecorosa que se realiza para llamar la atención.
- 6Individuo sin graduación de la Guardia Civil o de algunas organizaciones organizadas jerárquicamente.
- 7Accidente gramatical que expresa si las palabras se refieren a una sola persona o cosa o a más de una, por ejemplo, por medio de cierta diferencia en la terminación de las mismas.
- 8Posición, categoría, o clase de personas o cosas.
- 9Cantidad de elementos de una clase.
- 10Billete de lotería.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nmúero,nnúmero,núemro,númeor,númerro,númmero,númreo,únmero
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for número
Misspelling Variants of "número"
Frequency rank: #282 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter N in our Spanish index: