hipérbole

/[iˈpeɾβ̞ole]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#50,299

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

hipérbole is aSpanishnoun. It means: Exageración muy grande e intencional, que consiste en aumentar con el fin de obtener un enunciado más expresivo, como al decir: "Te llamé un millón de veces", "un millón de gracias" o "te doy mil b... Pronounced [iˈpeɾβ̞ole].

Key facts for hipérbole
PropertyValue
Headwordhipérbole
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[iˈpeɾβ̞ole]
Letters9
Frequency rank#50,299
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for hipérbole is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [iˈpeɾβ̞ole]. Corpus data places it at rank #50,299 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Exageración muy grande e intencional, que consiste en aumentar con el fin de obtener un enunciado más expresivo, como al decir: "Te llamé un millón de veces", "un millón de gracias" o "te doy mil b...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hipérbole 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 hipérbole, spelled H-I-P-É-R-B-O-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Exageración muy grande e intencional, que consiste en aumentar con el fin de obtener un enunciado más expresivo, como al decir: "Te llamé un millón de veces", "un millón de gracias" o "te doy mil besos".

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #50,299 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hipérbole"?
"hipérbole" is spelled H-I-P-É-R-B-O-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is [iˈpeɾβ̞ole].
What does "hipérbole" mean?
As a noun, "hipérbole" means: Exageración muy grande e intencional, que consiste en aumentar con el fin de obtener un enunciado más expresivo, como al decir: "Te llamé un millón de veces", "un millón de gracias" o "te doy mil b...
How do you pronounce "hipérbole"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hipérbole" is [iˈpeɾβ̞ole]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hipérbole" 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.