anticlímax
Letters
10 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
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anticlímax is aSpanishnoun. It means: Ordenación descendiente por significado en el discurso de palabras o de frases, de modo que cada una de ellas exprese algo menos que la anterior. Pronounced [ãn̪t̪iˈklimaks].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anticlímax |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ãn̪t̪iˈklimaks] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for anticlímax is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ãn̪t̪iˈklimaks]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for anticlímax in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 anticlímax, spelled A-N-T-I-C-L-Í-M-A-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ordenación descendiente por significado en el discurso de palabras o de frases, de modo que cada una de ellas exprese algo menos que la anterior.
- 2Parte menos significativa del anticlímax₁.
- 3El momento de relajación posterior al clímax.
- 4En una narración la resolución insatisfactoria de un conflicto.
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