positivo
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,416
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
positivo is anSpanishadj. It means: Que no da lugar a dudas. Pronounced [posiˈt̪iβ̞o]. It ranks #2,416 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with positivos and político.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | positivo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [posiˈt̪iβ̞o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for positivo is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [posiˈt̪iβ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,416 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for positivo, with forms such as "opsitivo", "pocitivo", and "poistivo". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "positivos", "político", "positiva", 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 positivo, spelled P-O-S-I-T-I-V-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que no da lugar a dudas.
- 2Se dice de algo que existe, mejora o aumenta, en oposición a negativo, que se aplica a lo que falta.
- 3Que es de utilidad o sirve para mejorar o para lograr algo.
- 4Optimista, que ve el lado útil o afirmativo de las cosas.
- 5Se dice de lo afirmativo, contrapuesto a lo negativo.
- 6Se dice de cargas o características opuestas al negativo (como el opuesto la carga negativa del electrón).
- 7Se aplica al número o cifra que tiene un valor mayor de cero, o que está precedido por el signo (+).
- 8Se dice de una copia fotográfica en que las partes claras y oscuras aparecen como se ven en la realidad.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opsitivo,pocitivo,poistivo,posiitvo,positibo,positiov,positivvo,posittivo,positvio,possitivo,postiivo,ppositivo,psoitivo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for positivo
Misspelling Variants of "positivo"
Frequency rank: #2,416 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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