sueño
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,070
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sueño is aSpanishnoun. It means: Estado de tener ganas de dormir. Pronounced [ˈsweɲo]. It ranks #1,070 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with sun and suyo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sueño |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsweɲo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sueño is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsweɲo]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,070 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for sueño, with forms such as "seuño", "ssueño", and "sueoñ". 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, "sun", "suyo", "supo", 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 sueño, spelled S-U-E-Ñ-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Estado de tener ganas de dormir.
- 2Cada rato que se pasa durmiendo.
- 3Actividad mental producto del acto de dormir, que consiste en imágenes y vivencias irreales y mezcladas basadas en las experiencias del sujeto.
- 4Aquello que representa un anhelo o fantasía por alcanzar, con esfuerzo o mágicamente.
- 5Cosa fantástica y sin fundamento o razón.
- 6Estado que adquieren algunas plantas, en la que la varian la posición de sus hojas, folíolos, pétalos, etc., en relación con las alternancias del día y noche, o con luz y calor muy intensos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: seuño,ssueño,sueoñ,suñeo,useño
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sueño
Misspelling Variants of "sueño"
Frequency rank: #1,070 in Spanish
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