hecatombe
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#57,101
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
hecatombe is aSpanishnoun. It means: Catástrofe o desastre con numerosas víctimas y grandes pérdidas. Pronounced [ekaˈt̪õmbe].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hecatombe |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ekaˈt̪õmbe] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hecatombe is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ekaˈt̪õmbe]. Corpus data places it at rank #57,101 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 hecatombe 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 hecatombe, spelled H-E-C-A-T-O-M-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Catástrofe o desastre con numerosas víctimas y grandes pérdidas.
- 2Gran mortandad; matanza.
- 3Sacrificio religioso de 100 bueyes u otras víctimas, que hacían los antiguos paganos a sus dioses, especialmente los paganos de la antigua Grecia.
- 4Cualquier sacrificio solemne en que es abundante el número de víctimas, aunque no lleguen a 100 o excedan 100.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #57,101 in Spanish
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