circunflejo
Letters
11 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
circunflejo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Signo diacrítico (^) formado por dos líneas oblicua unidas en sus extremos superiores. Se emplea sobre letras del alfabeto latino, particularmente vocales, en la escritura de idiomas como el francés. Pronounced [siɾkũɱˈflexo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | circunflejo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [siɾkũɱˈflexo] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for circunflejo is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [siɾkũɱˈflexo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for circunflejo 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 circunflejo, spelled C-I-R-C-U-N-F-L-E-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Signo diacrítico (^) formado por dos líneas oblicua unidas en sus extremos superiores. Se emplea sobre letras del alfabeto latino, particularmente vocales, en la escritura de idiomas como el francés.
- 2Simbolo matemático. Por ejemplo en la transformada de Fourier: ̂f(fcon techo)
- 3Signo de oclusión.
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