REM
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,225
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
REM is aSpanishnoun. It means: Fase del sueño durante la que suceden los ensueños más intensos. Durante esta fase, los ojos se mueven rápidamente y la actividad de las neuronas del cerebro se asemeja a la de cuando se está despi... Pronounced [ˈrẽm]. Often confused with ro and rr.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | REM |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈrẽm] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #35,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for REM is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈrẽm]. Corpus data places it at rank #35,225 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Fase del sueño durante la que suceden los ensueños más intensos. Durante esta fase, los ojos se mueven rápidamente y la actividad de las neuronas del cerebro se asemeja a la de cuando se está despi...".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for REM in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ro", "rr", "RM", 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 REM, spelled R-E-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fase del sueño durante la que suceden los ensueños más intensos. Durante esta fase, los ojos se mueven rápidamente y la actividad de las neuronas del cerebro se asemeja a la de cuando se está despierto.
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Frequency rank: #35,225 in Spanish
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