folletín
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#78,240
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
folletín is aSpanishnoun. It means: Escrito que se inserta en la parte inferior de las planas de los periódicos, y en el cual se trata de materias extrañas al objeto principal de la publicación; como artículos de crítica, novelas, etc. Pronounced [foʝeˈt̪ĩn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | folletín |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [foʝeˈt̪ĩn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for folletín is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [foʝeˈt̪ĩn]. Corpus data places it at rank #78,240 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for folletín 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 folletín, spelled F-O-L-L-E-T-Í-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Escrito que se inserta en la parte inferior de las planas de los periódicos, y en el cual se trata de materias extrañas al objeto principal de la publicación; como artículos de crítica, novelas, etc.
- 2Relato típico que se usa en las novelas por entrega, provocador e inverosímil.
- 3Fragmento cinematográfico cuyo estilo se parece al del folletín literario.
- 4Situación escandalosa tragicómica.
Frequency rank: #78,240 in Spanish
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