tormento
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,035
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
tormento is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de atormentar. Pronounced [t̪oɾˈmẽn̪t̪o]. Often confused with Toronto and Torrent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tormento |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪oɾˈmẽn̪t̪o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tormento is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪oɾˈmẽn̪t̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #27,035 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for tormento, with forms such as "otrmento", "tomrento", and "toremnto". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Toronto", "Torrent", "torrente", 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 tormento, spelled T-O-R-M-E-N-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de atormentar.
- 2Dolor o sufrimiento físico.
- 3Sufrimiento emocional, angustia, aflicción, congoja, pena.
- 4Instrumento musical idiófono de percusión, de golpe directo. Sirve para acompañar cuecas, tonadas y danzas campesinas de la Zona Central y del Norte Chico de Chile.
- 5Daño, dolor o lesión corporal que se causa a un reo o detenido para obligarlo a confesar o dar información.
- 6Máquina que dispara balas y proyectiles de diferentes tipos.
- 7Persona, objeto o situación que produce u ocasiona frecuentes preocupaciones o sufrimientos.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: otrmento,tomrento,toremnto,tormennto,tormenot,tormentto,tormetno,tormmento,tormneto,torrmento,tromento,ttormento
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tormento
Misspelling Variants of "tormento"
Frequency rank: #27,035 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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