opúsculo

/[oˈpuskulo]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#84,190

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

opúsculo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Obra científica o literaria de poca extensión (breve). Pronounced [oˈpuskulo].

Key facts for opúsculo
PropertyValue
Headwordopúsculo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[oˈpuskulo]
Letters8
Frequency rank#84,190
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of opúsculo in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for opúsculo is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oˈpuskulo]. Corpus data places it at rank #84,190 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Obra científica o literaria de poca extensión (breve).".

No misspelling variants are generated for opúsculo 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 opúsculo, spelled O-P-Ú-S-C-U-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Obra científica o literaria de poca extensión (breve).

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #84,190 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "opúsculo"?
"opúsculo" is spelled O-P-Ú-S-C-U-L-O. The IPA pronunciation is [oˈpuskulo].
What does "opúsculo" mean?
As a noun, "opúsculo" means: Obra científica o literaria de poca extensión (breve).
How do you pronounce "opúsculo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "opúsculo" is [oˈpuskulo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "opúsculo" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.