puente
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,697
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
puente is aSpanishnoun. It means: Construcción sólida que permite salvar un obstáculo pasando sobre él. Pronounced [ˈpwẽn̪t̪e]. It ranks #1,697 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with punto and punta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puente |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpwẽn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for puente is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpwẽn̪t̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,697 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for puente, with forms such as "peunte", "ppuente", and "puenet". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "punto", "punta", "puesto", 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 puente, spelled P-U-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Construcción sólida que permite salvar un obstáculo pasando sobre él.
- 2Día laboral entre dos festivos o entre un festivo y el fin de semana que se toma como descanso.
- 3En un circuito eléctrico, conexión entre dos componentes físicamente separados.
- 4En odontología es el reemplazo de uno o más piezas dentarias que se sostiene sobre los dientes contiguos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: peunte,ppuente,puenet,puennte,puentte,puetne,punete,upente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for puente
Misspelling Variants of "puente"
Frequency rank: #1,697 in Spanish
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