segmento

/[seɣ̞ˈmẽn̪t̪o]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,357

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

segmento is aSpanishnoun. It means: Porción de recta contenida entre dos puntos cualquiera contenidos en ella. Pronounced [seɣ̞ˈmẽn̪t̪o]. It ranks #7,357 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with segmentos and sediento.

Key facts for segmento
PropertyValue
Headwordsegmento
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[seɣ̞ˈmẽn̪t̪o]
Letters8
Frequency rank#7,357
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of segmento in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for segmento is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [seɣ̞ˈmẽn̪t̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,357 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Porción de recta contenida entre dos puntos cualquiera contenidos en ella.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for segmento, with forms such as "cegmento", "esgmento", and "segemnto". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "segmentos", "sediento", "sedimento", 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 segmento, spelled S-E-G-M-E-N-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Porción de recta contenida entre dos puntos cualquiera contenidos en ella.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cegmento,esgmento,segemnto,seggmento,segmennto,segmenot,segmentto,segmetno,segmmento,segmneto,semgento,sgemento,ssegmento

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for segmento

Misspelling Variants of "segmento"

cegmento8esgmento8segemnto8seggmento9segmennto9segmenot8segmentto9segmetno8
Misspelling Variants of "segmento"

Frequency rank: #7,357 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "segmento"?
"segmento" is spelled S-E-G-M-E-N-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is [seɣ̞ˈmẽn̪t̪o].
What does "segmento" mean?
As a noun, "segmento" means: Porción de recta contenida entre dos puntos cualquiera contenidos en ella.
What words are commonly confused with "segmento"?
"segmento" is commonly confused with "segmentos", "sediento", "sedimento". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "segmento"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "segmento" is [seɣ̞ˈmẽn̪t̪o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "segmento" come from?
"segmento" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.