ovni
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,157
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
ovni is aSpanishnoun. It means: Objeto real o aparente de naturaleza desconocida avistado en el cielo Pronounced [ˈoβ̞ni]. Often confused with own and ovnis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ovni |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈoβ̞ni] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #23,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ovni is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈoβ̞ni]. Corpus data places it at rank #23,157 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for ovni, with forms such as "obni", "onvi", and "ovin". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "own", "ovnis", "on", 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 ovni, spelled O-V-N-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Objeto real o aparente de naturaleza desconocida avistado en el cielo
- 2Por extensión, hipotética nave voladora de origen extraterrestre
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: obni,onvi,ovin,ovnni,ovvni,voni
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ovni
Misspelling Variants of "ovni"
Frequency rank: #23,157 in Spanish
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