oso
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,644
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
oso is aSpanishnoun. It means: Nombre común de los mamíferos carnívoros de la familia úrsidos que incluye géneros Ursus, Thalarctos y Tremarctos entre otros. Son de tamaño considerable, de cabeza voluminosa, ojos pequeños y orej... Pronounced [ˈoso]. It ranks #5,644 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with oz and ou.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈoso] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,644 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for oso is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈoso]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,644 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for oso in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "oz", "ou", "ot", 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 oso, spelled O-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nombre común de los mamíferos carnívoros de la familia úrsidos que incluye géneros Ursus, Thalarctos y Tremarctos entre otros. Son de tamaño considerable, de cabeza voluminosa, ojos pequeños y orejas mas o menos cortas y redondeadas. Tronco tosco, patas cortas y robustas, pies con uñas no retráctiles. Son omnívoros y grandes marchadores. Actualmente los osos se hallan en algunas zonas de Europa, Asia y América; no se encuentran en África, Australia y la Antártida.
- 2En sentido figurado, hombre homosexual masculino, corpulento y con abundante vello, lo que permite parecerse a un oso₂.
- 3Situación o experiencia ridícula o embarazosa.
- 4Persona encargada de cuidar y velar por la seguridad de un político, artista o persona que paga por este servicio.
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Frequency rank: #5,644 in Spanish
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