excurso
Letters
7 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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excurso is aSpanishnoun. It means: Parte de un discurso que se aparta de la temática principal de éste para tocar otros asuntos más o menos extensamente. Pronounced [eksˈkuɾso].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excurso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eksˈkuɾso] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for excurso is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eksˈkuɾso]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for excurso 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 excurso, spelled E-X-C-U-R-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Parte de un discurso que se aparta de la temática principal de éste para tocar otros asuntos más o menos extensamente.
- 2Sección de un texto destinada a estudiar más o menos extensamente otra obra, sin ser éste el objetivo primario del texto en sí mismo, en especial cuando el objeto de estudio es un clásico.
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