argucia

/[aɾˈɣ̞usja]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#95,980

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

argucia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Argumento presentado con ingenio, que parece verosímil pero que en realidad es engañoso. Pronounced [aɾˈɣ̞usja].

Key facts for argucia
PropertyValue
Headwordargucia
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[aɾˈɣ̞usja]
Letters7
Frequency rank#95,980
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for argucia is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aɾˈɣ̞usja]. Corpus data places it at rank #95,980 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Argumento presentado con ingenio, que parece verosímil pero que en realidad es engañoso.".

No misspelling variants are generated for argucia 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 argucia, spelled A-R-G-U-C-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Argumento presentado con ingenio, que parece verosímil pero que en realidad es engañoso.

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Frequency rank: #95,980 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "argucia"?
"argucia" is spelled A-R-G-U-C-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [aɾˈɣ̞usja].
What does "argucia" mean?
As a noun, "argucia" means: Argumento presentado con ingenio, que parece verosímil pero que en realidad es engañoso.
How do you pronounce "argucia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "argucia" is [aɾˈɣ̞usja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "argucia" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.