simple
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#977
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
simple is anSpanishadj. It means: Fácil de hacer o de entender. Pronounced [ˈsĩmple]. It ranks #977 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with smile and single.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | simple |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈsĩmple] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for simple is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsĩmple]. Corpus data places it at rank #977 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for simple, with forms such as "cimple", "ismple", and "simlpe". 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, "smile", "single", "simula", 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 simple, spelled S-I-M-P-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fácil de hacer o de entender.
- 2Básico, que no es complicado.
- 3Que consta de un sólo elemento.
- 4un verbo en tiempo simple es el que no necesita un verbo auxiliar.
- 5Desabrido, falto de sazón y de sabor.
- 6Se dice del traslado o copia de una escritura, instrumento público o cosa semejante, que se saca sin firmar ni autorizar.
- 7Cimbra, armazón sobre la cual se van colocando las dovelas de una bóveda o arco hasta dejarlos cerrados.
- 8Material cualquiera de procedencia orgánica o inorgánica que sirve por sí solo a la medicina, o que entra en la composición de un medicamento.
- 9Modelo, dechado, ejemplar.
- 10Con un simple + sustantivo: Simplemente con un...
- 11Persona de poca inteligencia.
- 12Manso, apacible e incauto.
- 13Se dice de las partes del vegetal que no están divididas o ramificadas.
- 14Se aplica a la palabra que no se compone de otras de la lengua a que ella pertenece.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cimple,ismple,simlpe,simmple,simpel,simplle,simpple,sipmle,smiple,ssimple
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for simple
Misspelling Variants of "simple"
Frequency rank: #977 in Spanish
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