usted
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#405
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
usted is aSpanishpron. It means: Forma de segunda persona, usada como tratamiento de respeto, cortesía o distanciamiento, tanto para el masculino como para el femenino en los casos nominativo, dativo y ablativo. Al usarlo, los ver... Pronounced [usˈt̪eð̞]. It ranks #405 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ustedes and use.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | usted |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pron |
| IPA | [usˈt̪eð̞] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for usted is 5 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [usˈt̪eð̞]. Corpus data places it at rank #405 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for usted, with forms such as "suted", "usetd", and "ussted". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "ustedes", "use", "usen", 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 usted, spelled U-S-T-E-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Forma de segunda persona, usada como tratamiento de respeto, cortesía o distanciamiento, tanto para el masculino como para el femenino en los casos nominativo, dativo y ablativo. Al usarlo, los verbos se conjugan en tercera persona singular.
- 2Forma de segunda persona informal usada en lugar de tú o vos, sin distinción de respeto, cortesía o familiaridad.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: suted,usetd,ussted,ustde,ustedd,ustted,utsed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for usted
Misspelling Variants of "usted"
Frequency rank: #405 in Spanish
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