testigo
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,218
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
testigo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Persona que presencia un hecho en el mismo momento en que ocurre y adquiere conocimiento inmediato sobre este. Pronounced [t̪esˈt̪iɣ̞o]. It ranks #3,218 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with testing and testigos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | testigo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪esˈt̪iɣ̞o] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for testigo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪esˈt̪iɣ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,218 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 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 testigo, with forms such as "etstigo", "tesitgo", and "tesstigo". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "testing", "testigos", 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 testigo, spelled T-E-S-T-I-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Persona que presencia un hecho en el mismo momento en que ocurre y adquiere conocimiento inmediato sobre este.
- 2La persona que da testimonio sobre lo que presencio.
- 3Por extensión, quien declara ante el tribunal sobre hechos que son relevantes para la resolución del asunto sometido a su decisión, sin ser una de las partes litigantes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etstigo,tesitgo,tesstigo,testgio,testiggo,testiog,testtigo,tetsigo,tsetigo,ttestigo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for testigo
Misspelling Variants of "testigo"
Frequency rank: #3,218 in Spanish
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