Ifigenia

/[ifiˈxenja]/ name

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#73,731

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Ifigenia is aSpanishname. It means: Hija de Agamemnón y Clitemnestra, rey de Micenas. Su padre jefe de los griegos reunidos contra Troya, la quiso sacrificar a Diana para obtener la protección de los dioses, que mantenían, gracias a ... Pronounced [ifiˈxenja].

Key facts for Ifigenia
PropertyValue
HeadwordIfigenia
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechName
IPA[ifiˈxenja]
Letters8
Frequency rank#73,731
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Ifigenia is 8 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ifiˈxenja]. Corpus data places it at rank #73,731 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Hija de Agamemnón y Clitemnestra, rey de Micenas. Su padre jefe de los griegos reunidos contra Troya, la quiso sacrificar a Diana para obtener la protección de los dioses, que mantenían, gracias a ...".

No misspelling variants are generated for Ifigenia 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 Ifigenia, spelled I-F-I-G-E-N-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Hija de Agamemnón y Clitemnestra, rey de Micenas. Su padre jefe de los griegos reunidos contra Troya, la quiso sacrificar a Diana para obtener la protección de los dioses, que mantenían, gracias a los vientos adversos, la flota helénica cautiva en el puerto de Aulis. Pero la diosa substituyó a Ifigenia una ternera y se llevó la joven a Táuride, donde fue sacerdotisa suya.

Frequency rank: #73,731 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Ifigenia"?
"Ifigenia" is spelled I-F-I-G-E-N-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ifiˈxenja].
What does "Ifigenia" mean?
As a name, "Ifigenia" means: Hija de Agamemnón y Clitemnestra, rey de Micenas. Su padre jefe de los griegos reunidos contra Troya, la quiso sacrificar a Diana para obtener la protección de los dioses, que mantenían, gracias a ...
How do you pronounce "Ifigenia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Ifigenia" is [ifiˈxenja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Ifigenia" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.