cacofonía
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#96,064
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cacofonía is aSpanishnoun. It means: Vicio del lenguaje que consiste en el encuentro o repetición frecuente de unas mismas letras o sílabas. Pronounced [kakofoˈnia].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cacofonía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kakofoˈnia] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,064 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cacofonía is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kakofoˈnia]. Corpus data places it at rank #96,064 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cacofonía 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 cacofonía, spelled C-A-C-O-F-O-N-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vicio del lenguaje que consiste en el encuentro o repetición frecuente de unas mismas letras o sílabas.
- 2Efecto sonoro desagradable producido por la cercanía de sonidos o sílabas que poseen igual pronunciación. Se emplea a veces como recurso literario (cacografía).
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #96,064 in Spanish
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