ironía
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,693
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
ironía is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mofa o guasa delicada y fingida. Pronounced [iɾoˈnia]. It ranks #6,693 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with irónico and irónica.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ironía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [iɾoˈnia] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ironía is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [iɾoˈnia]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,693 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ironía, with forms such as "iornía", "irnoía", and "ironaí". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "irónico", "irónica", "ironías", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 ironía, spelled I-R-O-N-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mofa o guasa delicada y fingida.
- 2Figura retórica consistente en expresar lo contrario de lo que se dice, pero sin dejar lugar a dudas sobre el verdadero sentido.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iornía,irnoía,ironaí,ironnía,iroína,irronía,rionía
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ironía
Misspelling Variants of "ironía"
Frequency rank: #6,693 in Spanish
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