vergüenza
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,001
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
vergüenza is aSpanishnoun. It means: Sentimiento de turbación causado por sentir culpa, humillación o deshonra. Pronounced [beɾˈɣ̞wẽnsa]. It ranks #2,001 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with vergüenzas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vergüenza |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [beɾˈɣ̞wẽnsa] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for vergüenza is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [beɾˈɣ̞wẽnsa]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,001 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for vergüenza, with forms such as "bergüenza", "evrgüenza", and "vegrüenza". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "vergüenzas", 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 vergüenza, spelled V-E-R-G-Ü-E-N-Z-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sentimiento de turbación causado por sentir culpa, humillación o deshonra.
- 2Alta estima en la que se tiene la honra, el honor o el prestigio propios.
- 3Escasez de ánimo o timidez para llevar algo a cabo.
- 4Acto deshonroso o que afecta gravemente al honor.
- 5Castigo consistente en la exposición pública del delito cometido.
- 6Por extensión, enrojecimiento visible del rostro que hace patente una emoción como la vergüenza₁.
- 7Palo transversal que orna el frente de una puerta.
- 8Bonete o toca con que solían cubrirse la cabeza las mujeres.
- 9Sentimiento de respeto a los principios éticos o a las reglas no escritas de la vida en sociedad.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bergüenza,evrgüenza,vegrüenza,vergeünza,verggüenza,vergüenaz,vergüennza,vergüenzza,vergüezna,vergüneza,verrgüenza,verügenza,vregüenza,vvergüenza
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vergüenza
Misspelling Variants of "vergüenza"
Frequency rank: #2,001 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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