intermezzo
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10 characters
Language
Spanish
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intermezzo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Composición que se intercala entre otras piezas musicales o dramáticas, tales como los actos de una obra de teatro o los movimientos de una obra musical más amplia. Pronounced [ĩn̪t̪eɾˈmeso].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intermezzo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ĩn̪t̪eɾˈmeso] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for intermezzo is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩn̪t̪eɾˈmeso]. 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 intermezzo 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 intermezzo, spelled I-N-T-E-R-M-E-Z-Z-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Composición que se intercala entre otras piezas musicales o dramáticas, tales como los actos de una obra de teatro o los movimientos de una obra musical más amplia.
- 2Situación en donde al estar bajo una amenaza del rival, en lugar de defenderla, se responde intercalando una amenaza más importante para obligarlo a que tenga que defenderse primero.
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