número primo
[ˈnumeɾo ˈpɾimo]
The verdict
“número primo” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Número entero positivo mayor que el número uno y que solo puede ser divisible sin residuo por el número uno y por el mismo. Los primeros números primos son: 2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | número primo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈnumeɾo ˈpɾimo] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “número primo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for número primo is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnumeɾo ˈpɾimo]. 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 entero positivo mayor que el número uno y que solo puede ser divisible sin residuo por el número uno y por el mismo. Los primeros números primos son: 2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47...".
No misspelling variants are generated for número primo 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 primo, spelled N-Ú-M-E-R-O- -P-R-I-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Número entero positivo mayor que el número uno y que solo puede ser divisible sin residuo por el número uno y por el mismo. Los primeros números primos son: 2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47, ...
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Using “número primo”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is N-Ú-M-E-R-O- -P-R-I-M-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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