melodía

/[meloˈð̞ia]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#10,533

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

melodía is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cualidad de la voz o el sonido de un instrumento que lo hace agradable o placentero Pronounced [meloˈð̞ia]. Often confused with melody and memoria.

Key facts for melodía
PropertyValue
Headwordmelodía
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[meloˈð̞ia]
Letters7
Frequency rank#10,533
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for melodía is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [meloˈð̞ia]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,533 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for melodía, with forms such as "emlodía", "meldoía", and "mellodía". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "melody", "memoria", "melodías", 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 melodía, spelled M-E-L-O-D-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cualidad de la voz o el sonido de un instrumento que lo hace agradable o placentero
  2. 2
    Serie sucesiva y ordenada de sonidos musicales de diferente altura que forman una unidad o tema
  3. 3
    Cualidad por la que se distingue el canto agradable de oir
  4. 4
    Rama de la música que agrupa los diferentes géneros de composición en relación del tiempo con relación al canto o de la elección y número de sones empleados en los períodos musicales

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: emlodía,meldoía,mellodía,melodaí,meloddía,meloída,meoldía,mleodía,mmelodía

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for melodía

Misspelling Variants of "melodía"

emlodía7meldoía7mellodía8melodaí7meloddía8meloída7meoldía7mleodía7
Misspelling Variants of "melodía"

Frequency rank: #10,533 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "melodía"?
"melodía" is spelled M-E-L-O-D-Í-A. The IPA pronunciation is [meloˈð̞ia].
What does "melodía" mean?
As a noun, "melodía" means: Cualidad de la voz o el sonido de un instrumento que lo hace agradable o placentero
What words are commonly confused with "melodía"?
"melodía" is commonly confused with "melody", "memoria", "melodías". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "melodía"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "melodía" is [meloˈð̞ia]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "melodía" come from?
"melodía" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.