implosión
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#51,671
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
implosión is aSpanishnoun. It means: Proceso o resultado de derrumbarse, romperse, caerse o estallar hacia adentro y con violencia la estructura de algo, especialmente las paredes de una cavidad cuando ceden a la presión externa. Pronounced [ĩmploˈsjõn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | implosión |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ĩmploˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,671 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for implosión is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩmploˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #51,671 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for implosión 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 implosión, spelled I-M-P-L-O-S-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Proceso o resultado de derrumbarse, romperse, caerse o estallar hacia adentro y con violencia la estructura de algo, especialmente las paredes de una cavidad cuando ceden a la presión externa.
- 2Manera específica en que se articulan o pronuncian las consonantes oclusivas (las que se producen cerrando la salida del aire) cuando son implosivas, es decir, están al final de una sílaba o de una palabra y no terminan con la abertura súbita que caracteriza su final en otras posiciones.
- 3Momento o etapa inicial de la oclusión, esto es, de cerrar o contener hacia adentro la salida del aire en el proceso de articular una consonante oclusiva.
- 4Reducción súbita del tamaño de un cuerpo celeste (astro, planeta, etc.) al parecer recogerse en su centro por colapso gravitatorio.
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Frequency rank: #51,671 in Spanish
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