número entero
[ˈnumeɾo ẽn̪ˈt̪eɾo]
The verdict
“número entero” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Número que pertenece a alguno de los siguientes conjuntos: Enteros positivos 1,2,3,4,..., Enteros negativos-1,-2,-3,-4,... o bien es el cero.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | número entero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈnumeɾo ẽn̪ˈt̪eɾo] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “número entero” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for número entero is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnumeɾo ẽn̪ˈt̪eɾo]. 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: "Número que pertenece a alguno de los siguientes conjuntos: Enteros positivos 1,2,3,4,..., Enteros negativos-1,-2,-3,-4,... o bien es el cero.".
No misspelling variants are generated for número entero 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 número entero, spelled N-Ú-M-E-R-O- -E-N-T-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Número que pertenece a alguno de los siguientes conjuntos: Enteros positivos 1,2,3,4,..., Enteros negativos-1,-2,-3,-4,... o bien es el cero.
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Using “número entero”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is N-Ú-M-E-R-O- -E-N-T-E-R-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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