kendo

/[ˈkẽn̪d̪o]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#61,703

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

kendo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Arte marcial japonés moderno formativo que destaca por el uso y manejo del shinái. Pronounced [ˈkẽn̪d̪o].

Key facts for kendo
PropertyValue
Headwordkendo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈkẽn̪d̪o]
Letters5
Frequency rank#61,703
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for kendo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkẽn̪d̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #61,703 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Arte marcial japonés moderno formativo que destaca por el uso y manejo del shinái.".

No misspelling variants are generated for kendo 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 kendo, spelled K-E-N-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Arte marcial japonés moderno formativo que destaca por el uso y manejo del shinái.

Frequency rank: #61,703 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "kendo"?
"kendo" is spelled K-E-N-D-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkẽn̪d̪o].
What does "kendo" mean?
As a noun, "kendo" means: Arte marcial japonés moderno formativo que destaca por el uso y manejo del shinái.
How do you pronounce "kendo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "kendo" is [ˈkẽn̪d̪o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "kendo" 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.