feng shui

/[ˈfẽŋ ˈʃwi]/ phrase

Letters

9 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

feng shui is aSpanishphrase. It means: Antiguo sistema filosófico chino de origen taoísta basado en la ocupación consciente y armónica del espacio, con el fin de lograr de este una influencia positiva sobre las personas que lo ocupan. Pronounced [ˈfẽŋ ˈʃwi].

Key facts for feng shui
PropertyValue
Headwordfeng shui
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈfẽŋ ˈʃwi]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

feng shui is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for feng shui is 9 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfẽŋ ˈʃwi]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Antiguo sistema filosófico chino de origen taoísta basado en la ocupación consciente y armónica del espacio, con el fin de lograr de este una influencia positiva sobre las personas que lo ocupan.".

No misspelling variants are generated for feng shui 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 feng shui, spelled F-E-N-G- -S-H-U-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Antiguo sistema filosófico chino de origen taoísta basado en la ocupación consciente y armónica del espacio, con el fin de lograr de este una influencia positiva sobre las personas que lo ocupan.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "feng shui"?
"feng shui" is spelled F-E-N-G- -S-H-U-I. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈfẽŋ ˈʃwi].
What does "feng shui" mean?
As a phrase, "feng shui" means: Antiguo sistema filosófico chino de origen taoísta basado en la ocupación consciente y armónica del espacio, con el fin de lograr de este una influencia positiva sobre las personas que lo ocupan.
How do you pronounce "feng shui"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "feng shui" is [ˈfẽŋ ˈʃwi]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "feng shui" come from?
"feng shui" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: 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.