exégesis
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#60,808
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
exégesis is aSpanishnoun. It means: Explicación, interpretación. Pronounced [ekˈsexesis].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exégesis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ekˈsexesis] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for exégesis is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ekˈsexesis]. Corpus data places it at rank #60,808 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for exégesis 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 exégesis, spelled E-X-É-G-E-S-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Explicación, interpretación.
- 2Interpretación o explicación de un texto, la cual puede ser filológica, histórica o doctrinal. Frecuentemente se emplea para la interpretación doctrinal de un texto antiguo en análisis comparativo histórico-filológico, que sirve así mismo para la datación de aquella obras cuya fecha de composición se desconoce. Este término se aplica especialmente refiriéndose a la interpretación de las Sagradas escrituras.
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Frequency rank: #60,808 in Spanish
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