raíz
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,901
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
raíz is aSpanishnoun. It means: Causa de algo. Pronounced [raˈis]. It ranks #2,901 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with río and ray.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raíz |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [raˈis] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for raíz is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [raˈis]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,901 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 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for raíz, with forms such as "aríz", "razí", and "raízz". 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, "río", "ray", "rap", 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 raíz, spelled R-A-Í-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Causa de algo.
- 2Órgano de la planta por el que absorbe agua y minerales.
- 3Monema con significado léxico y no gramatical.
- 4Parte del diente que se se incrusta en el alvéolo.
- 5Cualquiera de las soluciones de la ecuación xⁿ=a, con n∈Z y a∈ℜ .
- 6Valor del dominio de una función tal que esta se anule.
- 7En un árbol, el nodo que no tiene padres.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aríz,razí,raízz,rraíz,ríaz
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for raíz
Misspelling Variants of "raíz"
Frequency rank: #2,901 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our Spanish index: