significado

/[siɣ̞nifiˈkað̞o]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,320

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

significado is aSpanishnoun. It means: Lo que significa algo, lo que quiere decir una palabra, una idea, concepto, etc. Pronounced [siɣ̞nifiˈkað̞o]. It ranks #2,320 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with significar and significan.

Key facts for significado
PropertyValue
Headwordsignificado
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[siɣ̞nifiˈkað̞o]
Letters11
Frequency rank#2,320
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for significado is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [siɣ̞nifiˈkað̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,320 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for significado, with forms such as "cignificado", "isgnificado", and "sginificado". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "significar", "significan", "significará", 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 significado, spelled S-I-G-N-I-F-I-C-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lo que significa algo, lo que quiere decir una palabra, una idea, concepto, etc.
  2. 2
    Contenido semántico, condicionado por el contexto del mismo, de cualquier tipo de signo.
  3. 3
    Construcción del sentido, que se realiza en interacción a partir de aspectos semánticos propios de la lengua y de los sentidos sociales propios de la interacción, a partir de los cuales el sujeto se ubica en el mundo.
  4. 4
    Forma en la que se ha de entender un objeto, situación o definición.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cignificado,isgnificado,sginificado,siggnificado,siginficado,signfiicado,signifciado,signifficado,signifiacdo,significaddo,significaod,significcado,significdao,signiifcado,signnificado,singificado,ssignificado

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for significado

Misspelling Variants of "significado"

cignificado11isgnificado11sginificado11siggnificado12siginficado11signfiicado11signifciado11signifficado12
Misspelling Variants of "significado"

Frequency rank: #2,320 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "significado"?
"significado" is spelled S-I-G-N-I-F-I-C-A-D-O. The IPA pronunciation is [siɣ̞nifiˈkað̞o].
What does "significado" mean?
As a noun, "significado" means: Lo que significa algo, lo que quiere decir una palabra, una idea, concepto, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "significado"?
"significado" is commonly confused with "significar", "significan", "significará". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "significado"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "significado" is [siɣ̞nifiˈkað̞o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "significado" come from?
"significado" 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.