curriculum vitae

/[ky.ʁi.ky.lɔm vi.ta]/ phrase

Letters

16 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

curriculum vitae is aSpanishphrase. It means: Grafía alternativa de curriculum vitæ Pronounced [ky.ʁi.ky.lɔm vi.ta].

Key facts for curriculum vitae
PropertyValue
Headwordcurriculum vitae
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ky.ʁi.ky.lɔm vi.ta]
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

curriculum vitae is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for curriculum vitae is 16 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ky.ʁi.ky.lɔm vi.ta]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Grafía alternativa de curriculum vitæ".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for curriculum vitae 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 curriculum vitae, spelled C-U-R-R-I-C-U-L-U-M- -V-I-T-A-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Grafía alternativa de curriculum vitæ

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "curriculum vitae"?
"curriculum vitae" is spelled C-U-R-R-I-C-U-L-U-M- -V-I-T-A-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ky.ʁi.ky.lɔm vi.ta].
What does "curriculum vitae" mean?
As a phrase, "curriculum vitae" means: Grafía alternativa de curriculum vitæ
How do you pronounce "curriculum vitae"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "curriculum vitae" is [ky.ʁi.ky.lɔm vi.ta]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "curriculum vitae" come from?
"curriculum vitae" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.