número cardinal

/[ˈnumeɾo kaɾð̞iˈnal]/ phrase

Letters

15 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

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número cardinal is aSpanishphrase. It means: Número que especifica cantidad. Pronounced [ˈnumeɾo kaɾð̞iˈnal].

Key facts for número cardinal
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Headwordnúmero cardinal
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈnumeɾo kaɾð̞iˈnal]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

número cardinal 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 número cardinal is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnumeɾo kaɾð̞iˈnal]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for número cardinal 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 número cardinal, spelled N-Ú-M-E-R-O- -C-A-R-D-I-N-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Número que especifica cantidad.
  2. 2
    Es una clasificación de conjuntos que indica el tamaño del conjunto. Para conjuntos finitos la cardinalidad corresponde con el número de elementos del conjunto, así por ejemplo un conjunto sin elementos tiene un número cardinal cero, un conjunto con tres elementos tiene un número cardinal 3. En general para cualquier par de conjuntos se dice que tienen la misma cardinalidad o mismo número cardinal si y solo si existe un relación biyectiva de uno sobre el otro.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "número cardinal"?
"número cardinal" is spelled N-Ú-M-E-R-O- -C-A-R-D-I-N-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈnumeɾo kaɾð̞iˈnal].
What does "número cardinal" mean?
As a phrase, "número cardinal" means: Número que especifica cantidad.
How do you pronounce "número cardinal"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "número cardinal" is [ˈnumeɾo kaɾð̞iˈnal]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "número cardinal" 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.