opuesto
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,643
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
opuesto is anSpanishadj. It means: En una cosa o situación con dos lados o bandos mutuamente excluyentes o complementarios, se dice de uno de ellos respecto al otro; lo que está en el otro extremo respecto a su contraparte; diametra... Pronounced [oˈpwest̪o]. It ranks #5,643 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with opuso and opuestos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opuesto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [oˈpwest̪o] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for opuesto is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oˈpwest̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,643 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 opuesto, with forms such as "opeusto", "oppuesto", and "opuesot". 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, "opuso", "opuestos", "opuesta", 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 opuesto, spelled O-P-U-E-S-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En una cosa o situación con dos lados o bandos mutuamente excluyentes o complementarios, se dice de uno de ellos respecto al otro; lo que está en el otro extremo respecto a su contraparte; diametralmente diferente.
- 2Se dice de las hojas, flores, ramas, etc. que crecen una enfrente de la otra.
- 3Se dice de números o cantidades cuya suma es igual a cero.
- 4Se dice de alguien que se enfrenta o desafía a personas o grupos de mayor fuerza, tamaño o influencia.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opeusto,oppuesto,opuesot,opuessto,opuestto,opuetso,opuseto,oupesto,pouesto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for opuesto
Misspelling Variants of "opuesto"
Frequency rank: #5,643 in Spanish
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