cinismo
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,407
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
cinismo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Conducta descarada para mentir o hacer cosas indebidas, generalmente fingiendo ignorancia o desconocimiento. Pronounced [siˈnismo]. Often confused with civismo and cínico.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cinismo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [siˈnismo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cinismo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [siˈnismo]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,407 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for cinismo, with forms such as "ccinismo", "ciinsmo", and "cinimso". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "civismo", "cínico", "ciclismo", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 cinismo, spelled C-I-N-I-S-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conducta descarada para mentir o hacer cosas indebidas, generalmente fingiendo ignorancia o desconocimiento.
- 2Escuela filosófica de los antiguos griegos, fundada por Antístenes (443-336 a.C) y cuyo mejor representante fue Diógenes de Sínope (412-323 a.C). Se caracterizó por una crítica desmedida a todos los aspectos de la sociedad y de la vida, y sus seguidores vivían como mendigos descuidando su aseo y apariencia.
- 3Mala educación y falta de aseo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccinismo,ciinsmo,cinimso,cinismmo,cinisom,cinissmo,cinnismo,cinsimo,cniismo,icnismo,sinismo
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Misspelling Variants of "cinismo"
Frequency rank: #13,407 in Spanish
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