ciencia ficción

/[ˈsjẽnsja fikˈsjõn]/ phrase

Letters

15 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

ciencia ficción is aSpanishphrase. It means: Ficción basada en algún tipo de tecnología especulativa o en el que la ciencia es un elemento clave. Pronounced [ˈsjẽnsja fikˈsjõn].

Key facts for ciencia ficción
PropertyValue
Headwordciencia ficción
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈsjẽnsja fikˈsjõn]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

ciencia ficción is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for ciencia ficción is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsjẽnsja fikˈsjõn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for ciencia ficción 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 ciencia ficción, spelled C-I-E-N-C-I-A- -F-I-C-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ficción basada en algún tipo de tecnología especulativa o en el que la ciencia es un elemento clave.
  2. 2
    Tecnología que puede ser teóricamente posible pero que no ha sido implementada.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ciencia ficción"?
"ciencia ficción" is spelled C-I-E-N-C-I-A- -F-I-C-C-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈsjẽnsja fikˈsjõn].
What does "ciencia ficción" mean?
As a phrase, "ciencia ficción" means: Ficción basada en algún tipo de tecnología especulativa o en el que la ciencia es un elemento clave.
How do you pronounce "ciencia ficción"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ciencia ficción" is [ˈsjẽnsja fikˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ciencia ficción" 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.