signo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,118
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
signo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Señal, indicio. Pronounced [ˈsiɣ̞no]. It ranks #4,118 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with sin and sino.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | signo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsiɣ̞no] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for signo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsiɣ̞no]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,118 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 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for signo, with forms such as "cigno", "isgno", and "sgino". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sin", "sino", "sigo", 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 signo, spelled S-I-G-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Señal, indicio.
- 2Cosa que evoca o representa a otra.
- 3Carácter empleado en la escritura.
- 4Carácter con que se escribe la música.
- 5Señal de cálculo para indicar la naturaleza de las cantidades.
- 6Cada una de las doce divisiones del Zodíaco.
- 7Destino, hado.
- 8Signo lingüístico: Asociación arbitraria entre un significante y un significado y que constituye la unidad mínima de la lengua.
- 9Algo característico.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cigno,isgno,sgino,siggno,signno,sigon,singo,ssigno
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for signo
Misspelling Variants of "signo"
Frequency rank: #4,118 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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