oxímoron
[okˈsimoɾõn]
The verdict
“oxímoron” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #76,616 among 1,467 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,616
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Expresión en la que se emplean dos términos incongruentes o contradictorios.
Corpus desk
Index ES-oximoron · oxímoron · Spanish
oxímoron · rank #76,616 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,616
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH padecían
Nearest frequency peer: padecían (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “oxímoron”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- orinan
orinan
23,389 corpus weight
- oscurecida
oscurecida
23,388 corpus weight
- otomíes
otomíes
23,387 corpus weight
- oxímoron
oxímoron
23,385 corpus weight
- padecían
padecían
23,384 corpus weight
- Palazuelos
Palazuelos
23,382 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “oxímoron” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oxímoron |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [okˈsimoɾõn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “oxímoron” en español
Rare enough to double-check
oxímoron is uncommon Spanish at frequency #76,616 among 1,467 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [okˈsimoɾõn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Expresión en la que se emplean dos términos incongruentes o contradictorios.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for oxímoron, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is oxímoron, spelled O-X-Í-M-O-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Expresión en la que se emplean dos términos incongruentes o contradictorios.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how oxímoron appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Silencio atronador" es un oxímoron.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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