pulso
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,302
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pulso is aSpanishnoun. It means: Latido intermitente de las arterias, que se siente en varias partes del cuerpo y especialmente en la muñeca. Pronounced [ˈpulso]. It ranks #8,302 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with pus and puso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pulso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpulso] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,302 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pulso is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpulso]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,302 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for pulso, with forms such as "pluso", "ppulso", and "pullso". 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, "pus", "puso", "puro", 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 pulso, spelled P-U-L-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Latido intermitente de las arterias, que se siente en varias partes del cuerpo y especialmente en la muñeca.
- 2Parte de la muñeca donde se siente el latido de la arteria.
- 3Seguridad o firmeza en la mano para ejecutar una acción con acierto; como jugar la espada, escribir, etc.
- 4Tiento o cuidado en un negocio.
- 5Pulseada (competencia de fuerza).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pluso,ppulso,pullso,pulos,pulsso,puslo,uplso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pulso
Misspelling Variants of "pulso"
Frequency rank: #8,302 in Spanish
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