president

//ˈpɹɛz.ɪ.dənt// noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#21,799

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

president is aSpanishnoun. It means: Presidente, jefe de estado de una república. Pronounced /ˈpɹɛz.ɪ.dənt/. Often confused with presiento and presidente.

Key facts for president
PropertyValue
Headwordpresident
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈpɹɛz.ɪ.dənt/
Letters9
Frequency rank#21,799
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for president is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpɹɛz.ɪ.dənt/. Corpus data places it at rank #21,799 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for president, with forms such as "persident", "ppresident", and "precident". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "presiento", "presidente", "presidenta", 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 president, spelled P-R-E-S-I-D-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Presidente, jefe de estado de una república.
  2. 2
    Presidente, jefe de gobierno y del Estado en repúblicas presidencialistas.
  3. 3
    Presidente, cabeza de una corporación.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: persident,ppresident,precident,preisdent,presdient,presiddent,presidennt,presidentt,presidetn,presidnet,presiednt,pressident,prresident,prseident,rpesident

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for president

Misspelling Variants of "president"

persident9ppresident10precident9preisdent9presdient9presiddent10presidennt10presidentt10
Misspelling Variants of "president"

Frequency rank: #21,799 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "president"?
"president" is spelled P-R-E-S-I-D-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈpɹɛz.ɪ.dənt/.
What does "president" mean?
As a noun, "president" means: Presidente, jefe de estado de una república.
What words are commonly confused with "president"?
"president" is commonly confused with "presiento", "presidente", "presidenta". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "president"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "president" is /ˈpɹɛz.ɪ.dənt/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "president" come from?
"president" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.