electromagnetismo
[elekt̪ɾomaɣ̞neˈt̪ismo]
The verdict
“electromagnetismo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #71,850 among 101,141 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,850
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 101,141
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Rama de la física que estudia y unifica los fenómenos eléctricos y magnéticos. Ambos fenómenos se describen en una sola teoría, cuyos fundamentos fueron sentados por Faraday y formulados por primer...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | electromagnetismo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [elekt̪ɾomaɣ̞neˈt̪ismo] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Frequency rank | #71,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “electromagnetismo” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
electromagnetismo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #71,850 among 101,141 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [elekt̪ɾomaɣ̞neˈt̪ismo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rama de la física que estudia y unifica los fenómenos eléctricos y magnéticos. Ambos fenómenos se describen en una sola teoría, cuyos fundamentos fueron sentados por Faraday y formulados por primer...".
No misspelling variants are generated for electromagnetismo in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is electromagnetismo, spelled E-L-E-C-T-R-O-M-A-G-N-E-T-I-S-M-O.
Definition
- 1Rama de la física que estudia y unifica los fenómenos eléctricos y magnéticos. Ambos fenómenos se describen en una sola teoría, cuyos fundamentos fueron sentados por Faraday y formulados por primera vez de modo completo por James Clerk Maxwell.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-L-E-C-T-R-O-M-A-G-N-E-T-I-S-M-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.