antífona
[ãn̪ˈt̪ifona]
The verdict
“antífona” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pasaje bíblico o litúrgico corto que se canta o reza al principio y al final de los salmos o cánticos en las horas canónicas, teniendo correlación con el oficio del día.
Corpus desk
Index ES-antifona · antífona · Spanish
antífona · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antífona |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ãn̪ˈt̪ifona] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “antífona” en español
Rare enough to double-check
antífona is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ãn̪ˈt̪ifona]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pasaje bíblico o litúrgico corto que se canta o reza al principio y al final de los salmos o cánticos en las horas canónicas, teniendo correlación con el oficio del día.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for antífona, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is antífona, spelled A-N-T-Í-F-O-N-A.
Definition
- 1Pasaje bíblico o litúrgico corto que se canta o reza al principio y al final de los salmos o cánticos en las horas canónicas, teniendo correlación con el oficio del día.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.