cítara
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].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cítara |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsit̪aɾa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Instrumento de cuerda pulsada, en que estas están afinadas en pares (como el laúd) pero con la parte posterior plana como la guitarra.
- 2Instrumento 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.
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Frequency rank: #90,784 in Spanish
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