viudo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,694
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
viudo is anSpanishadj. It means: Persona cuyo cónyuge ha muerto y no se ha vuelto a casar. Pronounced [ˈbjuð̞o]. Often confused with vivo and vudú.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | viudo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈbjuð̞o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #24,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for viudo is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbjuð̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #24,694 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for viudo, with forms such as "biudo", "ivudo", and "viduo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vivo", "vudú", "vivió", 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 viudo, spelled V-I-U-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Persona cuyo cónyuge ha muerto y no se ha vuelto a casar.
- 2Se dice de algunas aves a las que se les ha muerto la compañera que tenían para procrear, como la tórtola.
- 3Se dice de las patatas, judías, etc. que se cocinan solas, sin utilizar otro alimento para darle sabor como el tocino o el chorizo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: biudo,ivudo,viduo,viuddo,viuod,vuido,vviudo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for viudo
Misspelling Variants of "viudo"
Frequency rank: #24,694 in Spanish
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