contorsión
Letters
10 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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contorsión is aSpanishnoun. It means: Proceso y resultado de mover, encoger, torcer o doblar de manera voluntaria o involuntaria el cuerpo o parte de él, hacia posiciones anormales, forzadas y a veces grotescas. Pronounced [kõn̪t̪oɾˈsjõn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contorsión |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kõn̪t̪oɾˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for contorsión is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõn̪t̪oɾˈsjõn]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for contorsión in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 contorsión, spelled C-O-N-T-O-R-S-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Proceso y resultado de mover, encoger, torcer o doblar de manera voluntaria o involuntaria el cuerpo o parte de él, hacia posiciones anormales, forzadas y a veces grotescas.
- 2Tipo de ejercicio acrobático que implica doblar y flexionar de modo dramático o extremo el cuerpo humano.
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