mimetismo

/[mimeˈt̪ismo]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#79,362

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

mimetismo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Propiedad que poseen algunos animales y plantas de adoptar la coloración o la forma de los seres inanimados del medio en que viven, que les sirve para protegerse y disimular su presencia de los ata... Pronounced [mimeˈt̪ismo].

Key facts for mimetismo
PropertyValue
Headwordmimetismo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[mimeˈt̪ismo]
Letters9
Frequency rank#79,362
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for mimetismo is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mimeˈt̪ismo]. Corpus data places it at rank #79,362 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Propiedad que poseen algunos animales y plantas de adoptar la coloración o la forma de los seres inanimados del medio en que viven, que les sirve para protegerse y disimular su presencia de los ata...".

No misspelling variants are generated for mimetismo 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 mimetismo, spelled M-I-M-E-T-I-S-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Propiedad que poseen algunos animales y plantas de adoptar la coloración o la forma de los seres inanimados del medio en que viven, que les sirve para protegerse y disimular su presencia de los ataques de sus depredadores.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #79,362 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mimetismo"?
"mimetismo" is spelled M-I-M-E-T-I-S-M-O. The IPA pronunciation is [mimeˈt̪ismo].
What does "mimetismo" mean?
As a noun, "mimetismo" means: Propiedad que poseen algunos animales y plantas de adoptar la coloración o la forma de los seres inanimados del medio en que viven, que les sirve para protegerse y disimular su presencia de los ata...
How do you pronounce "mimetismo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mimetismo" is [mimeˈt̪ismo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mimetismo" 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.