negrismo

/[neˈɣ̞ɾismo]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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negrismo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Movimiento intelectual de comienzos del siglo XX, especialmente fuerte en los campos de la etnografía y la poesía, que centró sus temas y estilos en la experiencia de los afrodescendientes hispanoa... Pronounced [neˈɣ̞ɾismo].

Key facts for negrismo
PropertyValue
Headwordnegrismo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[neˈɣ̞ɾismo]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

negrismo is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for negrismo is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [neˈɣ̞ɾismo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Movimiento intelectual de comienzos del siglo XX, especialmente fuerte en los campos de la etnografía y la poesía, que centró sus temas y estilos en la experiencia de los afrodescendientes hispanoa...".

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

Definition

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    Movimiento intelectual de comienzos del siglo XX, especialmente fuerte en los campos de la etnografía y la poesía, que centró sus temas y estilos en la experiencia de los afrodescendientes hispanoamericanos, y en particular los afrocaribeños. Algunos de sus representantes son Fernando Ortiz y Nicolás Guillén (Cuba), Manuel del Cabral (República Dominicana), Luis Palés Matos y Julia de Burgos (Puerto Rico). Tuvo relación y afinidades con el Harlem Renaissance en Estados Unidos y el movimiento de la négritude en las Antillas francesas.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "negrismo"?
"negrismo" is spelled N-E-G-R-I-S-M-O. The IPA pronunciation is [neˈɣ̞ɾismo].
What does "negrismo" mean?
As a noun, "negrismo" means: Movimiento intelectual de comienzos del siglo XX, especialmente fuerte en los campos de la etnografía y la poesía, que centró sus temas y estilos en la experiencia de los afrodescendientes hispanoa...
How do you pronounce "negrismo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "negrismo" is [neˈɣ̞ɾismo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "negrismo" 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.