obispo
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,133
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
obispo is aSpanishnoun. It means: En la Iglesia Católica, sacerdote de alta investidura, encargado de gobernar una diócesis, que es nombrado por el Papa. Pronounced [oˈβ̞ispo]. It ranks #3,133 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with omiso and Olimpo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obispo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [oˈβ̞ispo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for obispo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oˈβ̞ispo]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,133 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for obispo, with forms such as "boispo", "obbispo", and "obipso". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "omiso", "Olimpo", "obispos", 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 obispo, spelled O-B-I-S-P-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En la Iglesia Católica, sacerdote de alta investidura, encargado de gobernar una diócesis, que es nombrado por el Papa.
- 2En diversas religiones, sacerdote de alto rango.
- 3Embutido grande, hecho con carne de cerdo cocida y otros ingredientes, condimentado con diversas especias.
- 4(Pteromylaeus bovinus) Pez marino de la familia de las rayas de hasta metro y medio sin contar la cola.
- 5(Aetobatus narinari) Pez de la familia de las rayas, de dorso jaspeado y vientre blanco, que habita aguas cálidas y tropicales de todo el mundo. Alcanza gran tamaño, con una envergadura de hasta 3 m.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: boispo,obbispo,obipso,obisop,obisppo,obisspo,obsipo,oibspo,ovispo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "obispo"
Frequency rank: #3,133 in Spanish
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