interjección
[ĩn̪t̪eɾxekˈsjõn]
The verdict
“interjección” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #87,963 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #87,963
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interjección |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ĩn̪t̪eɾxekˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #87,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “interjección” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for interjección is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, 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...".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for interjección, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is interjección, spelled I-N-T-E-R-J-E-C-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Voz 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
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 “interjección”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is I-N-T-E-R-J-E-C-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ĩn̪t̪eɾxekˈsjõn] (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.