fonología

/[fonoloˈxia]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#66,179

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

fonología is aSpanishnoun. It means: Componente de la lingüística que estudia la forma en que funciona el sistema de los sonidos de la lengua en general, y de cada lengua en particular, incluyendo los fonemas, las sílabas, la entonaci... Pronounced [fonoloˈxia].

Key facts for fonología
PropertyValue
Headwordfonología
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[fonoloˈxia]
Letters9
Frequency rank#66,179
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of fonología in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for fonología is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fonoloˈxia]. Corpus data places it at rank #66,179 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Componente de la lingüística que estudia la forma en que funciona el sistema de los sonidos de la lengua en general, y de cada lengua en particular, incluyendo los fonemas, las sílabas, la entonaci...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fonología 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 fonología, spelled F-O-N-O-L-O-G-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Componente de la lingüística que estudia la forma en que funciona el sistema de los sonidos de la lengua en general, y de cada lengua en particular, incluyendo los fonemas, las sílabas, la entonación, la acentuación, etc., a un nivel abstracto o mental. Este sistema se llama el nivel fonológico, y se complementa con los niveles morfológico (estructura interna de las palabras), sintáctico (interacción entre palabras) y semántico o léxico (significados).

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #66,179 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fonología"?
"fonología" is spelled F-O-N-O-L-O-G-Í-A. The IPA pronunciation is [fonoloˈxia].
What does "fonología" mean?
As a noun, "fonología" means: Componente de la lingüística que estudia la forma en que funciona el sistema de los sonidos de la lengua en general, y de cada lengua en particular, incluyendo los fonemas, las sílabas, la entonaci...
How do you pronounce "fonología"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fonología" is [fonoloˈxia]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fonología" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.