oxígeno
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,210
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
oxígeno is aSpanishnoun. It means: Elemento químico de número atómico 8, un calcógeno no metálico altamente reactivo, y el tercero más frecuente en la composición del universo. Pronounced [okˈsixeno]. It ranks #6,210 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with origen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oxígeno |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [okˈsixeno] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for oxígeno is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [okˈsixeno]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,210 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 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for oxígeno, with forms such as "oxgíeno", "oxxígeno", and "oxíegno". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "origen", 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 oxígeno, spelled O-X-Í-G-E-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Elemento químico de número atómico 8, un calcógeno no metálico altamente reactivo, y el tercero más frecuente en la composición del universo.
- 2Gas transparente e inodoro formado por dos átomos de oxígeno₁ en enlace covalente, uno de los principales componentes de la atmósfera terrestre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oxgíeno,oxxígeno,oxíegno,oxígenno,oxígeon,oxíggeno,oxígneo,oíxgeno,xoígeno
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for oxígeno
Misspelling Variants of "oxígeno"
Frequency rank: #6,210 in Spanish
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