arribista

/[ariˈβ̞ist̪a]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#84,573

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

arribista is aSpanishnoun. It means: Persona ambiciosa y sin escrúpulos que trata de progresar con rapidez sin valorar la ética de los medios empleados y saltándose cualquier prevención moral. Pronounced [ariˈβ̞ist̪a].

Key facts for arribista
PropertyValue
Headwordarribista
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ariˈβ̞ist̪a]
Letters9
Frequency rank#84,573
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for arribista is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ariˈβ̞ist̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #84,573 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Persona ambiciosa y sin escrúpulos que trata de progresar con rapidez sin valorar la ética de los medios empleados y saltándose cualquier prevención moral.".

No misspelling variants are generated for arribista 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 arribista, spelled A-R-R-I-B-I-S-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Persona ambiciosa y sin escrúpulos que trata de progresar con rapidez sin valorar la ética de los medios empleados y saltándose cualquier prevención moral.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #84,573 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "arribista"?
"arribista" is spelled A-R-R-I-B-I-S-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ariˈβ̞ist̪a].
What does "arribista" mean?
As a noun, "arribista" means: Persona ambiciosa y sin escrúpulos que trata de progresar con rapidez sin valorar la ética de los medios empleados y saltándose cualquier prevención moral.
How do you pronounce "arribista"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "arribista" is [ariˈβ̞ist̪a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "arribista" 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.