sapo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,956
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sapo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cualquiera de numerosas especies de batracios anuros, de cuerpo robusto, piel rugosa y hábitos anfibios; no constituyen un clado filogenético, distinguiéndose de las ranas solo por su apariencia. Pronounced [ˈsapo]. Often confused with so and sep.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sapo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsapo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sapo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsapo]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,956 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 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 sapo, with forms such as "aspo", "saop", and "sappo". 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, "so", "sep", "seo", 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 sapo, spelled S-A-P-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cualquiera de numerosas especies de batracios anuros, de cuerpo robusto, piel rugosa y hábitos anfibios; no constituyen un clado filogenético, distinguiéndose de las ranas solo por su apariencia.
- 2Por extensión, cualquier anfibio.
- 3Por extensión, cualquier pequeño animal acuático.
- 4Por extensión, cualquier insecto y otros artrópodos afines.
- 5Persona que sube y baja de los microbuses anunciando a los chóferes el tiempo que los distancia de otras micros, para que conserven su distancia y puedan optimizar su recogida de pasajeros.
- 6Vagina y vulva.
- 7Por analogía con el sapo₆, cierta clase de monedero pequeño con cierre.
- 8Hilo más grueso que los demás en un tejido.
- 9Juego de precisión, en que se intenta introducir lanzándolas un determinado número de fichas o tejos en una serie de agujeros.
- 10(Opsanus tau) Pez batracoidiforme, de piel amarilla y marrón en múltiples tonos que le sirve de camuflaje, marítimo, subtropical, que habita en zonas rocosas del Atlántico.
- 11Acierto por casualidad o azar.
- 12Defecto visual en la estructura interna de una piedra preciosa.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aspo,saop,sappo,spao,ssapo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sapo
Misspelling Variants of "sapo"
Frequency rank: #14,956 in Spanish
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