ínfula
Letters
6 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
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similar word pairs
ínfula is aSpanishnoun. It means: Adorno de lana blanca, a manera de venda, con dos tiras caídas a los lados, con que se ceñían la cabeza los sacerdotes de los gentiles y los suplicantes, y que se ponía sobre las de las víctimas. U... Pronounced [ˈĩɱfula].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ínfula |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈĩɱfula] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ínfula is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈĩɱfula]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ínfula 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 ínfula, spelled Í-N-F-U-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Adorno de lana blanca, a manera de venda, con dos tiras caídas a los lados, con que se ceñían la cabeza los sacerdotes de los gentiles y los suplicantes, y que se ponía sobre las de las víctimas. Usábanlo también en la antigüedad algunos reyes.
- 2Cada una de las dos cintas anchas que penden por la parte posterior de la mitra episcopal.
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