sargento
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,182
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
sargento is aSpanishnoun. It means: Antiguo oficial subalterno de infantería, encargado de la administración y disciplina de una compañía Pronounced [saɾˈxẽn̪t̪o]. It ranks #8,182 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Sarmiento and sargentos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sargento |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [saɾˈxẽn̪t̪o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sargento is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [saɾˈxẽn̪t̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,182 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 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for sargento, with forms such as "asrgento", "sagrento", and "saregnto". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Sarmiento", "sargentos", 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 sargento, spelled S-A-R-G-E-N-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Antiguo oficial subalterno de infantería, encargado de la administración y disciplina de una compañía
- 2Suboficial de rango superior al cabo en diversos cuerpos militares y de seguridad
- 3Antiguo suplente de alcalde de los juzgados de provincia
- 4Persona autoritaria y prepotente
- 5Prensa dotada de tornillo para fijar al banco de trabajo la pieza sobre la que se desea operar, cuya forma recuerda a una G mayúscula
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asrgento,sagrento,saregnto,sargennto,sargenot,sargentto,sargetno,sarggento,sargneto,sarrgento,sragento,ssargento
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sargento
Misspelling Variants of "sargento"
Frequency rank: #8,182 in Spanish
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