cítara

/[ˈsit̪aɾa]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#90,784

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

cítara is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento de cuerda pulsada, en que estas están afinadas en pares (como el laúd) pero con la parte posterior plana como la guitarra. Pronounced [ˈsit̪aɾa].

Key facts for cítara
PropertyValue
Headwordcítara
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈsit̪aɾa]
Letters6
Frequency rank#90,784
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cítara in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cítara is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsit̪aɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #90,784 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 misspelling variants are generated for cítara 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 cítara, spelled C-Í-T-A-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Instrumento de cuerda pulsada, en que estas están afinadas en pares (como el laúd) pero con la parte posterior plana como la guitarra.
  2. 2
    Instrumento de cuerda que se sostiene sobre las rodillas o en una mesa y que se puntea. Algunas cuerdas pueden ser pisadas (como en la guitarra actual) y otras tienen altura fija y son usadas para acompañamiento. Es un instrumento folclórico de Europa Central.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #90,784 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cítara"?
"cítara" is spelled C-Í-T-A-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈsit̪aɾa].
What does "cítara" mean?
As a noun, "cítara" means: Instrumento de cuerda pulsada, en que estas están afinadas en pares (como el laúd) pero con la parte posterior plana como la guitarra.
How do you pronounce "cítara"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cítara" is [ˈsit̪aɾa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cítara" 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.