Ifigenia
[ifiˈxenja]
The verdict
“Ifigenia” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #73,731 among 22,782 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,731
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 22,782
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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 ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ifigenia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ifiˈxenja] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ifigenia” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Ifigenia is uncommon Spanish at frequency #73,731 among 22,782 “I” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ifiˈxenja]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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 generated misspelling entries exist for Ifigenia in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is Ifigenia, spelled I-F-I-G-E-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1Hija 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.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Ifigenia”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is I-F-I-G-E-N-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ifiˈxenja] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.