oportuno
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,008
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
oportuno is anSpanishadj. It means: Que sucede o se realiza en el momento adecuado. Pronounced [opoɾˈt̪uno]. It ranks #9,008 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with oportunos and Oporto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oportuno |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [opoɾˈt̪uno] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,008 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for oportuno is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [opoɾˈt̪uno]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,008 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for oportuno, with forms such as "ooprtuno", "oporrtuno", and "oportnuo". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "oportunos", "Oporto", "oportuna", 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 oportuno, spelled O-P-O-R-T-U-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que sucede o se realiza en el momento adecuado.
- 2Que interviene en forma pertinente o ingeniosa en la conversación.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ooprtuno,oporrtuno,oportnuo,oporttuno,oportunno,oportuon,oporutno,opotruno,opportuno,oprotuno,poortuno
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for oportuno
Misspelling Variants of "oportuno"
Frequency rank: #9,008 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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