primario
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,706
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
primario is anSpanishadj. It means: Que precede a los demás en orden o grado (primero). Pronounced [pɾiˈmaɾjo]. It ranks #9,706 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with primero and primarios.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | primario |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [pɾiˈmaɾjo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for primario is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɾiˈmaɾjo]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,706 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for primario, with forms such as "pirmario", "pprimario", and "priamrio". 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, "primero", "primarios", "primado", 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 primario, spelled P-R-I-M-A-R-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que precede a los demás en orden o grado (primero).
- 2Primero en importancia.
- 3Básico para la esencia o el ser de algo.
- 4Con características asociadas con lo menos desarrollado, lo mínimo o lo inicial de algo.
- 5Referido a la corriente de un transformador: Primera en generar electricidad (inductora o de entrada).
- 6Referido a un circuito: Que por él fluye la corriente primaria₅.
- 7Se dice de la era geológica comprendida desde hace unos 570 millones de años hasta hace unos 230 millones de años y que incluye, en su orden, los períodos cámbrico, ordovícico, silúrico, devónico, carbonífero y pérmico.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pirmario,pprimario,priamrio,primairo,primaroi,primarrio,primmario,primraio,prmiario,prrimario,rpimario
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for primario
Misspelling Variants of "primario"
Frequency rank: #9,706 in Spanish
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