musicología

/[musikoloˈxia]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#72,135

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

musicología is aSpanishnoun. It means: Rama de la ciencia que estudia la teoría, historia de la música, o la naturaleza física del sonido relativa a lo anterior. Pronounced [musikoloˈxia].

Key facts for musicología
PropertyValue
Headwordmusicología
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[musikoloˈxia]
Letters11
Frequency rank#72,135
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for musicología is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [musikoloˈxia]. Corpus data places it at rank #72,135 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Rama de la ciencia que estudia la teoría, historia de la música, o la naturaleza física del sonido relativa a lo anterior.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for musicología in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 musicología, spelled M-U-S-I-C-O-L-O-G-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rama de la ciencia que estudia la teoría, historia de la música, o la naturaleza física del sonido relativa a lo anterior.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #72,135 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "musicología"?
"musicología" is spelled M-U-S-I-C-O-L-O-G-Í-A. The IPA pronunciation is [musikoloˈxia].
What does "musicología" mean?
As a noun, "musicología" means: Rama de la ciencia que estudia la teoría, historia de la música, o la naturaleza física del sonido relativa a lo anterior.
How do you pronounce "musicología"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "musicología" is [musikoloˈxia]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "musicología" come from?
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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.