sencillo

/[sẽnˈsiʝo]/ adj

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,916

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

sencillo is anSpanishadj. It means: Que no tiene artificio ni excesiva elaboración o sofisticación. Pronounced [sẽnˈsiʝo]. It ranks #1,916 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with sencillos and sencilla.

Key facts for sencillo
PropertyValue
Headwordsencillo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdj
IPA[sẽnˈsiʝo]
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,916
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for sencillo is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sẽnˈsiʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,916 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 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 sencillo, with forms such as "cencillo", "esncillo", and "secnillo". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "sencillos", "sencilla", "sencillas", 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 sencillo, spelled S-E-N-C-I-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Que no tiene artificio ni excesiva elaboración o sofisticación.
  2. 2
    Referido a telas y otras cosas, que tiene menos cuerpo o grosor que otras de su tipo.
  3. 3
    Que no tiene ostentación y adornos.
  4. 4
    Referido al estilo, que expresa el mensaje de un modo directo, ingenuo y natural.
  5. 5
    Que no es difícil, que no ofrece mayores retos al entendimiento.
  6. 6
    Referido a una persona, que no actúa con pretensión, dobles intenciones ni vanidad, sino de modo sincero, espontáneo o natural.
  7. 7
    Que no usa su astucia y por lo tanto puede ser engañado fácilmente.
  8. 8
    Se dice de la moneda pequeña de menos valor respecto de otra del mismo nombre.
  9. 9
    Referido a habitaciones de hotel y ciertos productos o servicios, que no es doble ni triple, que se ofrece para una sola persona, uso, ocasión, etc.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cencillo,esncillo,secnillo,senccillo,sencilo,sencilol,senclilo,senicllo,senncillo,sensillo,snecillo,ssencillo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sencillo

Misspelling Variants of "sencillo"

cencillo8esncillo8secnillo8senccillo9sencilo7sencilol8senclilo8senicllo8
Misspelling Variants of "sencillo"

Frequency rank: #1,916 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sencillo"?
"sencillo" is spelled S-E-N-C-I-L-L-O. The IPA pronunciation is [sẽnˈsiʝo].
What does "sencillo" mean?
As an adj, "sencillo" means: Que no tiene artificio ni excesiva elaboración o sofisticación.
What words are commonly confused with "sencillo"?
"sencillo" is commonly confused with "sencillos", "sencilla", "sencillas". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sencillo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sencillo" is [sẽnˈsiʝo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sencillo" come from?
"sencillo" 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.