fricativa
[fɾikaˈt̪iβ̞a]
The verdict
“fricativa” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Forma del femenino de fricativo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fricativa · fricativa · Spanish
fricativa · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fricativa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [fɾikaˈt̪iβ̞a] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fricativa” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
fricativa is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [fɾikaˈt̪iβ̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forma del femenino de fricativo.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fricativa, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is fricativa, spelled F-R-I-C-A-T-I-V-A.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino de fricativo.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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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.