frontispicio

/[fɾõn̪t̪isˈpisjo]/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#82,978

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

frontispicio is aSpanishnoun. It means: Conjunto de elementos que encuadran y decoran la portalada central de un edificio, en especial cuando aquella está situada en la fachada principal en vez de estar tras una columnata o pórtico. Pronounced [fɾõn̪t̪isˈpisjo].

Key facts for frontispicio
PropertyValue
Headwordfrontispicio
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[fɾõn̪t̪isˈpisjo]
Letters12
Frequency rank#82,978
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for frontispicio is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fɾõn̪t̪isˈpisjo]. Corpus data places it at rank #82,978 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 misspelling variants are generated for frontispicio 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 frontispicio, spelled F-R-O-N-T-I-S-P-I-C-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Conjunto de elementos que encuadran y decoran la portalada central de un edificio, en especial cuando aquella está situada en la fachada principal en vez de estar tras una columnata o pórtico.
  2. 2
    Ilustración decorativa elaborada para aparecer en la hoja que antecede a la página del título (primera página) o en esta misma.
  3. 3
    Principio y final de un proceso informático.
  4. 4
    Cara, parte anterior de la cabeza.

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Frequency rank: #82,978 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "frontispicio"?
"frontispicio" is spelled F-R-O-N-T-I-S-P-I-C-I-O. The IPA pronunciation is [fɾõn̪t̪isˈpisjo].
What does "frontispicio" mean?
As a noun, "frontispicio" means: Conjunto de elementos que encuadran y decoran la portalada central de un edificio, en especial cuando aquella está situada en la fachada principal en vez de estar tras una columnata o pórtico.
How do you pronounce "frontispicio"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "frontispicio" is [fɾõn̪t̪isˈpisjo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "frontispicio" come from?
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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.