refugio
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,191
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
refugio is aSpanishnoun. It means: Lugar en que ampararse, resguardarse, recibir protección, asilo o acogida. Pronounced [reˈfuxjo]. It ranks #4,191 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with regio and reunió.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | refugio |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [reˈfuxjo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for refugio is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [reˈfuxjo]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,191 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 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for refugio, with forms such as "erfugio", "reffugio", and "refguio". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "regio", "reunió", "repudio", 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 refugio, spelled R-E-F-U-G-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lugar en que ampararse, resguardarse, recibir protección, asilo o acogida.
- 2Persona de quien se obtiene apoyo emocional en momentos difíciles.
- 3Defensa o protección contra un riesgo, peligro o mal.
- 4Caseta a la orilla de los caminos rurales que sirve para tomar resguardo del mal tiempo mientras se espera abordar un vehículo.
- 5Andén en el que los peatones pueden esperar a salvo, para cruzar la otra mitad de la calle.
- 6Cabaña o construcción en la montaña, para los excursionistas que requieran un techo o abrigo.
- 7Congregación religiosa que se dedica a salvar y a ayudar a los pobres y afligidos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erfugio,reffugio,refguio,refuggio,refugoi,refuigo,reufgio,rfeugio,rrefugio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for refugio
Misspelling Variants of "refugio"
Frequency rank: #4,191 in Spanish
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