ichthys
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7 characters
Language
Spanish
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ichthys is aSpanishnoun. It means: Símbolo que consiste en dos arcos que se intersecan de forma que parece el perfil de un pez a modo de una mandorla horizontal, y que fue empleado por los primeros cristianos como un símbolo secreto. Pronounced [ˈit͡ʃt̪is].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ichthys |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈit͡ʃt̪is] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for ichthys is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈit͡ʃt̪is]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for ichthys 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 ichthys, spelled I-C-H-T-H-Y-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Símbolo que consiste en dos arcos que se intersecan de forma que parece el perfil de un pez a modo de una mandorla horizontal, y que fue empleado por los primeros cristianos como un símbolo secreto.
- 2Representación estilizada de un pez, empleado como símbolo cristiano.
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