interjección

/[ĩn̪t̪eɾxekˈsjõn]/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#87,963

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

interjección is aSpanishnoun. It means: Voz que expresa alguna impresión súbita —como asombro, sorpresa, dolor, etc.—, sin mostrar conexión sintáctica con el resto del enunciado, poseyendo sentido holofrástico. Muchas veces muestran pecu... Pronounced [ĩn̪t̪eɾxekˈsjõn].

Key facts for interjección
PropertyValue
Headwordinterjección
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ĩn̪t̪eɾxekˈsjõn]
Letters12
Frequency rank#87,963
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for interjección is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩn̪t̪eɾxekˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #87,963 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Voz que expresa alguna impresión súbita —como asombro, sorpresa, dolor, etc.—, sin mostrar conexión sintáctica con el resto del enunciado, poseyendo sentido holofrástico. Muchas veces muestran pecu...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for interjección 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 interjección, spelled I-N-T-E-R-J-E-C-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Voz que expresa alguna impresión súbita —como asombro, sorpresa, dolor, etc.—, sin mostrar conexión sintáctica con el resto del enunciado, poseyendo sentido holofrástico. Muchas veces muestran peculiaridades articulatorias, empleando fonemas que no aparecen regularmente en la lengua, como el chasquido de la lengua, usado para expresar desagrado o impaciencia.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #87,963 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "interjección"?
"interjección" is spelled I-N-T-E-R-J-E-C-C-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ĩn̪t̪eɾxekˈsjõn].
What does "interjección" mean?
As a noun, "interjección" means: Voz que expresa alguna impresión súbita —como asombro, sorpresa, dolor, etc.—, sin mostrar conexión sintáctica con el resto del enunciado, poseyendo sentido holofrástico. Muchas veces muestran pecu...
How do you pronounce "interjección"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "interjección" is [ĩn̪t̪eɾxekˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.