somos

/[ˈsomos]/ verb

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#347

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

somos is aSpanishverb. It means: Primera persona del plural (nosotros, nosotras) del presente de indicativo de ser. Pronounced [ˈsomos]. It ranks #347 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with sos and sumo.

Key facts for somos
PropertyValue
Headwordsomos
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˈsomos]
Letters5
Frequency rank#347
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for somos is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsomos]. Corpus data places it at rank #347 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Primera persona del plural (nosotros, nosotras) del presente de indicativo de ser.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for somos, with forms such as "osmos", "smoos", and "sommos". 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, "sos", "sumo", "soto", 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 somos, spelled S-O-M-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Primera persona del plural (nosotros, nosotras) del presente de indicativo de ser.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: osmos,smoos,sommos,somoss,somso,sooms,ssomos

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for somos

Misspelling Variants of "somos"

osmos5smoos5sommos6somoss6somso5sooms5ssomos6
Misspelling Variants of "somos"

Frequency rank: #347 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "somos"?
"somos" is spelled S-O-M-O-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈsomos].
What does "somos" mean?
As a verb, "somos" means: Primera persona del plural (nosotros, nosotras) del presente de indicativo de ser.
What words are commonly confused with "somos"?
"somos" is commonly confused with "sos", "sumo", "soto". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "somos"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "somos" is [ˈsomos]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "somos" come from?
"somos" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter S in our Spanish index:

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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.