oclusivo

/[okluˈsiβ̞o]/ adj

Letters

8 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

oclusivo is anSpanishadj. It means: Se dice de la consonante caracterizada por presentar oclusión, es decir que su sonido se produce cerrando el conducto vocal. Pronounced [okluˈsiβ̞o].

Key facts for oclusivo
PropertyValue
Headwordoclusivo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdj
IPA[okluˈsiβ̞o]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

oclusivo 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 oclusivo is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [okluˈsiβ̞o]. 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: "Se dice de la consonante caracterizada por presentar oclusión, es decir que su sonido se produce cerrando el conducto vocal.".

No misspelling variants are generated for oclusivo 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 oclusivo, spelled O-C-L-U-S-I-V-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Se dice de la consonante caracterizada por presentar oclusión, es decir que su sonido se produce cerrando el conducto vocal.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "oclusivo"?
"oclusivo" is spelled O-C-L-U-S-I-V-O. The IPA pronunciation is [okluˈsiβ̞o].
What does "oclusivo" mean?
As an adj, "oclusivo" means: Se dice de la consonante caracterizada por presentar oclusión, es decir que su sonido se produce cerrando el conducto vocal.
How do you pronounce "oclusivo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "oclusivo" is [okluˈsiβ̞o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "oclusivo" 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.