contraportada

/[kõn̪t̪ɾapoɾˈt̪að̞a]/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Frequency Rank

#51,484

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

contraportada is aSpanishnoun. It means: Página que va atrás de la portada. Puede ser una réplica de la portada pero con la diferencia de que, mientras la portada se imprime en pastas duras, la contraportada va en el mismo papel que la te... Pronounced [kõn̪t̪ɾapoɾˈt̪að̞a].

Key facts for contraportada
PropertyValue
Headwordcontraportada
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kõn̪t̪ɾapoɾˈt̪að̞a]
Letters13
Frequency rank#51,484
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for contraportada is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõn̪t̪ɾapoɾˈt̪að̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #51,484 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 contraportada 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 contraportada, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-P-O-R-T-A-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Página que va atrás de la portada. Puede ser una réplica de la portada pero con la diferencia de que, mientras la portada se imprime en pastas duras, la contraportada va en el mismo papel que la tesis.
  2. 2
    Página par posterior a la portadilla, o página del título, generalmente blanca.

Frequency rank: #51,484 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "contraportada"?
"contraportada" is spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-P-O-R-T-A-D-A. The IPA pronunciation is [kõn̪t̪ɾapoɾˈt̪að̞a].
What does "contraportada" mean?
As a noun, "contraportada" means: Página que va atrás de la portada. Puede ser una réplica de la portada pero con la diferencia de que, mientras la portada se imprime en pastas duras, la contraportada va en el mismo papel que la te...
How do you pronounce "contraportada"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "contraportada" is [kõn̪t̪ɾapoɾˈt̪að̞a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.