entelequia
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#78,189
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
entelequia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Realización acabada que, según la filosofía aristotélica, alcanza todo ente al desarrollar plenamente sus potencialidades. Pronounced [ẽn̪t̪eˈlekja].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entelequia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ẽn̪t̪eˈlekja] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #78,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for entelequia is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽn̪t̪eˈlekja]. Corpus data places it at rank #78,189 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for entelequia 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 entelequia, spelled E-N-T-E-L-E-Q-U-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Realización acabada que, según la filosofía aristotélica, alcanza todo ente al desarrollar plenamente sus potencialidades.
- 2Por extensión, principio activo que impulsa a todo ente a la entelequia₁.
- 3Por extensión, capacidad para obrar que, según algunos racionalistas, informa todo ente.
- 4En particular, principio de actividad que anima a los seres vivos según los vitalistas.
- 5Cosa, situación o persona ideal y perfecta que existe únicamente en la imaginación.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #78,189 in Spanish
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