obstinación

/[oβ̞st̪inaˈsjõn]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#52,419

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

obstinación is aSpanishnoun. It means: Conservación tenaz de una opinión, una resolución, un propósito, etc. Pronounced [oβ̞st̪inaˈsjõn].

Key facts for obstinación
PropertyValue
Headwordobstinación
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[oβ̞st̪inaˈsjõn]
Letters11
Frequency rank#52,419
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for obstinación is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oβ̞st̪inaˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #52,419 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for obstinación 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 obstinación, spelled O-B-S-T-I-N-A-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Conservación tenaz de una opinión, una resolución, un propósito, etc.
  2. 2
    Acción o efecto de obstinarse.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #52,419 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "obstinación"?
"obstinación" is spelled O-B-S-T-I-N-A-C-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [oβ̞st̪inaˈsjõn].
What does "obstinación" mean?
As a noun, "obstinación" means: Conservación tenaz de una opinión, una resolución, un propósito, etc.
How do you pronounce "obstinación"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "obstinación" is [oβ̞st̪inaˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "obstinación" 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.