SMS
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,224
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
SMS is anSpanishabbrev. It means: Short Message Service, servicio de mensajes cortos que ofrece el sistema de telefonía móvil GSM. Pronounced [ˈsms]. Often confused with su and so.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | SMS |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Abbrev |
| IPA | [ˈsms] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for SMS is 3 letters long, classified as anabbrev, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsms]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,224 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for SMS in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "so", "st", 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 SMS, spelled S-M-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Short Message Service, servicio de mensajes cortos que ofrece el sistema de telefonía móvil GSM.
- 2Mensaje enviado mediante ese servicio.
Frequency rank: #10,224 in Spanish
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