heterotónico
Letters
12 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
heterotónico is anSpanishadj. It means: Se dice de un vocablo con grafía semejante en dos idiomas, pero cuyo acento está en sílabas diferentes. Por ejemplo, la palabra "héroe" en español es heterotónica respecto a herói en portugués. Pronounced [et̪eɾoˈt̪oniko].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heterotónico |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [et̪eɾoˈt̪oniko] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for heterotónico is 12 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [et̪eɾoˈt̪oniko]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for heterotónico 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 heterotónico, spelled H-E-T-E-R-O-T-Ó-N-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se dice de un vocablo con grafía semejante en dos idiomas, pero cuyo acento está en sílabas diferentes. Por ejemplo, la palabra "héroe" en español es heterotónica respecto a herói en portugués.
- 2Se dice de un tipo de verso o ritmo poético que presenta heterotonía vocálica, esto es, los acentos de una línea caen sobre una vocal diferente cada vez.
- 3Que pertenece o concierne a la heterotonía (anomalía o variación de la tensión o el tono).
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