virtus
[ˈwɪr.tuːs]
The verdict
“virtus” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #79,668 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #79,668
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Cualidad típica de un verdadero hombre, espíritu varonil, resolución, firmeza, valentía, o similar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | virtus |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈwɪr.tuːs] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “virtus” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for virtus is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈwɪr.tuːs]. Corpus data places it at rank #79,668 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for virtus in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 virtus, spelled V-I-R-T-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cualidad típica de un verdadero hombre, espíritu varonil, resolución, firmeza, valentía, o similar.
- 2Cualidad típica de un verdadero hombre, espíritu varonil, resolución, firmeza, valentía, o similar.
- 3Dícese del carácter o de las facultades mentales: excelencia, mérito, talento, aptitud, capacidad, valía, etc.
- 4Excelencia moral, virtud, bondad.
- 5En general: cualquier cualidad atractiva o valiosa, excelencia (natural o adquirida).
- 6En general: cualquier cualidad atractiva o valiosa, excelencia (natural o adquirida).
- 7En general: cualquier cualidad atractiva o valiosa, excelencia (natural o adquirida).
- 8Dícese de aquello en lo que algo sobresale: propiedad especial.
- 9En ablativo singular con genitivo o pronombres posesivos: gracias a los méritos o servicios (de), gracias a.
- 10En ablativo singular con genitivo o pronombres posesivos: gracias a los méritos o servicios (de), gracias a.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “virtus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is V-I-R-T-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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