metábasis
[meˈt̪aβ̞asis]
The verdict
“metábasis” 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
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Uso de un vocablo en una categoría gramatical que no es la que le corresponde habitualmente
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | metábasis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [meˈt̪aβ̞asis] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “metábasis” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for metábasis is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [meˈt̪aβ̞asis]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for metábasis 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 metábasis, spelled M-E-T-Á-B-A-S-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Uso de un vocablo en una categoría gramatical que no es la que le corresponde habitualmente
- 2Cambio de tema en el curso de un argumento o discurso
- 3Razonamiento analógico incorrecto
- 4Cambio en los síntomas o desarrollo de una enfermedad
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-E-T-Á-B-A-S-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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