astigmatismo
The verdict
“astigmatismo” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #64,378 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #64,378
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Estado del ojo que generalmente proviene de un problema en la curvatura de la córnea, lo que impide el enfoque claro de los objetos tanto lejanos como cercanos. La córnea, que debería ser esférica,...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | astigmatismo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ast̪iɣ̞maˈt̪ismo] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #64,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “astigmatismo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for astigmatismo is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ast̪iɣ̞maˈt̪ismo]. Corpus data places it at rank #64,378 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Estado del ojo que generalmente proviene de un problema en la curvatura de la córnea, lo que impide el enfoque claro de los objetos tanto lejanos como cercanos. La córnea, que debería ser esférica,...".
No misspelling variants are generated for astigmatismo 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 astigmatismo, spelled A-S-T-I-G-M-A-T-I-S-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Estado del ojo que generalmente proviene de un problema en la curvatura de la córnea, lo que impide el enfoque claro de los objetos tanto lejanos como cercanos. La córnea, que debería ser esférica, sufre un achatamiento en sus polos, lo cual produce distintos radios de curvatura en el eje del ojo, lo que genera imagenes poco nítidas y distorsionadas en la retina.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #64,378 in Spanish
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Using “astigmatismo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-S-T-I-G-M-A-T-I-S-M-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ast̪iɣ̞maˈt̪ismo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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