orientación sexual

/[oɾjẽn̪t̪aˈsjõn sekˈswal]/ phrase

Letters

18 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

orientación sexual is aSpanishphrase. It means: Patrón duradero de atracción sexual y/o romántica hacia un grupo de personas definidas por su sexo o su género. Pronounced [oɾjẽn̪t̪aˈsjõn sekˈswal].

Key facts for orientación sexual
PropertyValue
Headwordorientación sexual
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[oɾjẽn̪t̪aˈsjõn sekˈswal]
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for orientación sexual is 18 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oɾjẽn̪t̪aˈsjõn sekˈswal]. 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: "Patrón duradero de atracción sexual y/o romántica hacia un grupo de personas definidas por su sexo o su género.".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Patrón duradero de atracción sexual y/o romántica hacia un grupo de personas definidas por su sexo o su género.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "orientación sexual"?
"orientación sexual" is spelled O-R-I-E-N-T-A-C-I-Ó-N- -S-E-X-U-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is [oɾjẽn̪t̪aˈsjõn sekˈswal].
What does "orientación sexual" mean?
As a phrase, "orientación sexual" means: Patrón duradero de atracción sexual y/o romántica hacia un grupo de personas definidas por su sexo o su género.
How do you pronounce "orientación sexual"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "orientación sexual" is [oɾjẽn̪t̪aˈsjõn sekˈswal]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "orientación sexual" 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.