yeso
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,823
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
yeso is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mineral muy blando, compuesto primariamente de dihidrato de sulfato de calcio (fórmula: CaSO₄·2H₂O), de hábito cristalino prismático, monoclínico, de color blanco, transparente a translúcido, usado... Pronounced [ˈʝeso]. Often confused with yo and yet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yeso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʝeso] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for yeso is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʝeso]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,823 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for yeso, with forms such as "eyso", "yeos", and "yesso". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "yo", "yet", "yugo", 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 yeso, spelled Y-E-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mineral muy blando, compuesto primariamente de dihidrato de sulfato de calcio (fórmula: CaSO₄·2H₂O), de hábito cristalino prismático, monoclínico, de color blanco, transparente a translúcido, usado desde la Antigüedad para construcción y como aditivo en diversos procesos culinarios.
- 2Polvo de yeso₁ deshidratado, usado como material de construcción, especialmente en revestimientos y piezas decorativas.
- 3Obra escultórica vaciada en yeso₂.
- 4Vendaje impregnado de yeso₂ que se emplea para inmovilizar un miembro en caso de fracturas o fisuras de los huesos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eyso,yeos,yesso,yseo,yyeso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for yeso
Misspelling Variants of "yeso"
Frequency rank: #13,823 in Spanish
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