uso
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#349
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
uso is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de usar o de usarse. Pronounced [ˈuso]. It ranks #349 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ut and uva.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈuso] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for uso is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈuso]. Corpus data places it at rank #349 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for uso in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ut", "uva", "uta", 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 uso, spelled U-S-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 usar o de usarse.
- 2Función u objetivo general de una cosa.
- 3Acción o manera de actuar que es práctica común y repetida en un lugar o tiempo determinados.
- 4Derecho a obtener frutos o a beneficiarse de algo que es propiedad de otros.
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Frequency rank: #349 in Spanish
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