aféresis
Letters
8 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
aféresis is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pérdida de un sonido o grupo de sonidos al comienzo de una palabra (lectorile > letril > latril > atril) o de una letra inicial (la pérdida de la p en palabras como psicología a sicología). Pronounced [aˈfeɾesis].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aféresis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈfeɾesis] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for aféresis is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈfeɾesis]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for aféresis 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 aféresis, spelled A-F-É-R-E-S-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pérdida de un sonido o grupo de sonidos al comienzo de una palabra (lectorile > letril > latril > atril) o de una letra inicial (la pérdida de la p en palabras como psicología a sicología).
- 2Separación y eliminación de uno o varios componentes de una sustancia.
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