hándicap
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#82,082
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
hándicap is aSpanishnoun. It means: Asignación de puntos de penalización a las ventajas extradeportivas de algunos participantes, con el objetivo de nivelar los rendimientos entre competidores con equipamiento o capacidades diferentes. Pronounced [ˈxãn̪d̪ikap].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hándicap |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈxãn̪d̪ikap] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hándicap is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈxãn̪d̪ikap]. Corpus data places it at rank #82,082 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hándicap 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 hándicap, spelled H-Á-N-D-I-C-A-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Asignación de puntos de penalización a las ventajas extradeportivas de algunos participantes, con el objetivo de nivelar los rendimientos entre competidores con equipamiento o capacidades diferentes.
- 2Disminución de las capacidades físicas o mentales por causa de una lesión o deficiencia que puede haber sido adquirida o tenerse desde la concepción (congénita.
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Frequency rank: #82,082 in Spanish
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