tipo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#187
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tipo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Elemento real o ideal que representa una clase o categoría. Pronounced [ˈt̪ipo]. It ranks #187 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with to and top.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tipo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ipo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tipo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪ipo]. Corpus data places it at rank #187 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.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 tipo, with forms such as "itpo", "tiop", and "tippo". 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, "to", "top", "too", 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 tipo, spelled T-I-P-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Elemento real o ideal que representa una clase o categoría.
- 2Pieza utilizada en las imprentas que representa un carácter o glifo.
- 3Cada una de las clases de una letra de imprenta.
- 4Aspecto de una persona.
- 5En taxonomía, ejemplar de un ser vivo o de su actividad sobre el que se ha realizado la descripción científica del mismo y que, de ese modo, valida la publicación del nombre científico de su taxón (sea la especie, el género, la familia, etc).
- 6En las actuaciones de las chirigotas de los carnavales de Cádiz, baile con percusión que se suele hacer entre dos temas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: itpo,tiop,tippo,tpio,ttipo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tipo
Misspelling Variants of "tipo"
Frequency rank: #187 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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