iridio

/[iˈɾið̞jo]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

iridio is aSpanishnoun. It means: Elemento químico de número atómico 77 que se sitúa en el grupo 9 de la tabla periódica de los elementos. Su símbolo es Ir. Fue descubierto en 1803 por el químico Smithson Tennant. Se trata de un me... Pronounced [iˈɾið̞jo].

Key facts for iridio
PropertyValue
Headwordiridio
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[iˈɾið̞jo]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

iridio is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for iridio is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [iˈɾið̞jo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Elemento químico de número atómico 77 que se sitúa en el grupo 9 de la tabla periódica de los elementos. Su símbolo es Ir. Fue descubierto en 1803 por el químico Smithson Tennant. Se trata de un me...".

No misspelling variants are generated for iridio in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 iridio, spelled I-R-I-D-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Elemento químico de número atómico 77 que se sitúa en el grupo 9 de la tabla periódica de los elementos. Su símbolo es Ir. Fue descubierto en 1803 por el químico Smithson Tennant. Se trata de un metal de transición, del grupo del platino, duro, frágil, pesado, de color blanco plateado.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "iridio"?
"iridio" is spelled I-R-I-D-I-O. The IPA pronunciation is [iˈɾið̞jo].
What does "iridio" mean?
As a noun, "iridio" means: Elemento químico de número atómico 77 que se sitúa en el grupo 9 de la tabla periódica de los elementos. Su símbolo es Ir. Fue descubierto en 1803 por el químico Smithson Tennant. Se trata de un me...
How do you pronounce "iridio"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "iridio" is [iˈɾið̞jo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "iridio" come from?
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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.