principalmente

/[pɾĩnsiˌpalˈmẽn̪t̪e]/ adv

Letters

14 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,392

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

23

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

principalmente is anSpanishadv. It means: Sobre todo, con prioridad o antelación. Pronounced [pɾĩnsiˌpalˈmẽn̪t̪e]. It ranks #1,392 in Spanish word frequency.

Key facts for principalmente
PropertyValue
Headwordprincipalmente
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdv
IPA[pɾĩnsiˌpalˈmẽn̪t̪e]
Letters14
Frequency rank#1,392
Misspellings tracked23
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for principalmente is 14 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɾĩnsiˌpalˈmẽn̪t̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,392 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 23 documented wrong-spelling variants for principalmente, with forms such as "pirncipalmente", "pprincipalmente", and "pricnipalmente". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 principalmente, spelled P-R-I-N-C-I-P-A-L-M-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sobre todo, con prioridad o antelación.
  2. 2
    En forma principal, esencialmente.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: pirncipalmente,pprincipalmente,pricnipalmente,princcipalmente,princiaplmente,principalemnte,principallmente,principalmenet,principalmennte,principalmentte,principalmetne,principalmmente,principalmnete,principamlente,principlamente,princippalmente,princpialmente,prinicpalmente,prinncipalmente,prinsipalmente,prnicipalmente,prrincipalmente,rpincipalmente

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for principalmente

Misspelling Variants of "principalmente"

pirncipalmente14pprincipalmente15pricnipalmente14princcipalmente15princiaplmente14principalemnte14principallmente15principalmenet14
Misspelling Variants of "principalmente"

Frequency rank: #1,392 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "principalmente"?
"principalmente" is spelled P-R-I-N-C-I-P-A-L-M-E-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is [pɾĩnsiˌpalˈmẽn̪t̪e].
What does "principalmente" mean?
As an adv, "principalmente" means: Sobre todo, con prioridad o antelación.
What are common misspellings of "principalmente"?
Common misspellings include "pirncipalmente", "pprincipalmente", "pricnipalmente", "princcipalmente", "princiaplmente". The correct spelling is "principalmente".
How do you pronounce "principalmente"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "principalmente" is [pɾĩnsiˌpalˈmẽn̪t̪e]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "principalmente" come from?
"principalmente" 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.