women

//ˈwɪm.ɪn// noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#16,737

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

women is aSpanishnoun. It means: Forma del plural de woman. Pronounced /ˈwɪm.ɪn/. Often confused with won and when.

Key facts for women
PropertyValue
Headwordwomen
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈwɪm.ɪn/
Letters5
Frequency rank#16,737
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of women in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for women is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈwɪm.ɪn/. Corpus data places it at rank #16,737 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Forma del plural de woman.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for women, with forms such as "owmen", "wmoen", and "woemn". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "won", "when", "woman", 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 women, spelled W-O-M-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Forma del plural de woman.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: owmen,wmoen,woemn,womenn,wommen,womne,wwomen

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for women

Misspelling Variants of "women"

owmen5wmoen5woemn5womenn6wommen6womne5wwomen6
Misspelling Variants of "women"

Frequency rank: #16,737 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "women"?
"women" is spelled W-O-M-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈwɪm.ɪn/.
What does "women" mean?
As a noun, "women" means: Forma del plural de woman.
What words are commonly confused with "women"?
"women" is commonly confused with "won", "when", "woman". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "women"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "women" is /ˈwɪm.ɪn/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "women" come from?
"women" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter W in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.