social

/[soˈsjal]/ adj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#276

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

16

similar word pairs

social is anSpanishadj. It means: Relativo a la sociedad y a las personas que la conforman. Pronounced [soˈsjal]. It ranks #276 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with socio and solía.

Key facts for social
PropertyValue
Headwordsocial
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdj
IPA[soˈsjal]
Letters6
Frequency rank#276
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for social is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [soˈsjal]. Corpus data places it at rank #276 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for social, with forms such as "oscial", "scoial", and "socail". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "socio", "solía", "sucia", 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 social, spelled S-O-C-I-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relativo a la sociedad y a las personas que la conforman.
  2. 2
    Relativo a los socios de un colectivo.
  3. 3
    Perteneciente o relativo a una sociedad o colectivo.
  4. 4
    Relativo a las condiciones de trabajo.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: oscial,scoial,socail,soccial,sociall,socila,soical,sosial,ssocial

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for social

Misspelling Variants of "social"

oscial6scoial6socail6soccial7sociall7socila6soical6sosial6
Misspelling Variants of "social"

Frequency rank: #276 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "social"?
"social" is spelled S-O-C-I-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is [soˈsjal].
What does "social" mean?
As an adj, "social" means: Relativo a la sociedad y a las personas que la conforman.
What words are commonly confused with "social"?
"social" is commonly confused with "socio", "solía", "sucia". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "social"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "social" is [soˈsjal]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "social" come from?
"social" 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.