heurística

/[ewˈɾist̪ika]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#96,394

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

heurística is aSpanishnoun. It means: Disciplina que estudia el descubrimiento o la investigación. Pronounced [ewˈɾist̪ika].

Key facts for heurística
PropertyValue
Headwordheurística
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ewˈɾist̪ika]
Letters10
Frequency rank#96,394
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for heurística is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ewˈɾist̪ika]. Corpus data places it at rank #96,394 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for heurística 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 heurística, spelled H-E-U-R-Í-S-T-I-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Disciplina que estudia el descubrimiento o la investigación.
  2. 2
    Conjunto de reglas simples que pueden explicar los procesos de: toma de decisiones, emisión de juicios, y la solución de problemas, cuando estos son complejos o no se cuenta con la información completa sobre los mismos.
  3. 3
    Técnica diseñada para resolver un problema cuando se ignora si la solución es correcta, pero que usualmente produce un resultado suficientemente bueno o resuelve un problema similar pero más sencillo o que se interseca con la solución de problemas más complejos.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #96,394 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "heurística"?
"heurística" is spelled H-E-U-R-Í-S-T-I-C-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ewˈɾist̪ika].
What does "heurística" mean?
As a noun, "heurística" means: Disciplina que estudia el descubrimiento o la investigación.
How do you pronounce "heurística"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "heurística" is [ewˈɾist̪ika]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "heurística" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.