kości
The verdict
“kości” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 5
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Forma del genitivo singular de kość.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kości |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɔɕ.t͡ɕi/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “kości” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for kości is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkɔɕ.t͡ɕi/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for kości 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 kości, spelled K-O-Ś-C-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Forma del genitivo singular de kość.
- 2Forma del dativo singular de kość.
- 3Forma del locativo singular de kość.
- 4Forma del vocativo singular de kość.
- 5Forma del nominativo plural de kość.
- 6Forma del genitivo plural de kość.
- 7Forma del acusativo plural de kość.
- 8Forma del vocativo plural de kość.
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Using “kości”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is K-O-Ś-C-I — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkɔɕ.t͡ɕi/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Nearby Spanish words
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