metafonía
Spanish, noun[met̪afoˈnia]
metafonía is spelled M-E-T-A-F-O-N-Í-A (9 letters) and appears about once in every 69 million words in written Spanish, the 289,016th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Metafonía is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “metaphony” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Proceso morfológico de apofonía propio de las lenguas germánicas mediante el cual la raíz de un sustantivo…”.
What does metafonía mean in English?
noun
- 1
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Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Proceso morfológico de apofonía propio de las lenguas germánicas mediante el cual la raíz de un sustantivo, un adjetivo o un verbo adopta una vocal diferente a la de su forma básica Por ejemplo:la formación del pasado. Por ejemplo, en la alternancia sing/sang
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of metafonía
- metafonías plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce metafonía?
- [met̪afoˈnia]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to metafonía
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is metafonía in Spanish?
metafonía appears about once in every 69 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).