sencillo
[sẽnˈsiʝo]
The verdict
“sencillo” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #1,916 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #1,916
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Que no tiene artificio ni excesiva elaboración o sofisticación.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sencillo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [sẽnˈsiʝo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sencillo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sencillo is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective, 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 generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sencillo, with forms such as "cencillo", "esncillo", and "secnillo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "sencillos", "sencilla", "sencillas", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is sencillo, spelled S-E-N-C-I-L-L-O.
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.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cencillo,esncillo,secnillo,senccillo,sencilo,sencilol,senclilo,senicllo,senncillo,sensillo,snecillo,ssencillo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sencillo - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “sencillo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-E-N-C-I-L-L-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [sẽnˈsiʝo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “sencillos” - see the side-by-side comparison. sencillo vs sencillos
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.