deus ex machina
Letters
15 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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deus ex machina is aSpanishphrase. It means: Recurso dramático empleado por los antiguos, en que una tramoya hace descender a una deidad al escenario para intervenir en la trama en situaciones aparentemente insoluble. Pronounced /ˈdews ˈeks ˈma.kʰi.na/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deus ex machina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /ˈdews ˈeks ˈma.kʰi.na/ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for deus ex machina is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈdews ˈeks ˈma.kʰi.na/. 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 misspelling variants are generated for deus ex machina 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 deus ex machina, spelled D-E-U-S- -E-X- -M-A-C-H-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Recurso dramático empleado por los antiguos, en que una tramoya hace descender a una deidad al escenario para intervenir en la trama en situaciones aparentemente insoluble.
- 2Por extensión, cualquier argumento o método artificiosamente introducido para solucionar una dificultad o conflicto.
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