sencillo
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sencillo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [sẽnˈsiʝo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Que no tiene artificio ni excesiva elaboración o sofisticación.
- 2Referido a telas y otras cosas, que tiene menos cuerpo o grosor que otras de su tipo.
- 3Que no tiene ostentación y adornos.
- 4Referido al estilo, que expresa el mensaje de un modo directo, ingenuo y natural.
- 5Que no es difícil, que no ofrece mayores retos al entendimiento.
- 6Referido a una persona, que no actúa con pretensión, dobles intenciones ni vanidad, sino de modo sincero, espontáneo o natural.
- 7Que no usa su astucia y por lo tanto puede ser engañado fácilmente.
- 8Se dice de la moneda pequeña de menos valor respecto de otra del mismo nombre.
- 9Referido 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"
Frequency rank: #1,916 in Spanish
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