parafilia
[paɾaˈfilja]
The verdict
“parafilia” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Atracción sexual por personas, comportamientos u objetos que no forman parte del estándar culturalmente asociado al sexo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-parafilia · parafilia · Spanish
parafilia · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parafilia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [paɾaˈfilja] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “parafilia” en español
Rare enough to double-check
parafilia is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [paɾaˈfilja]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Atracción sexual por personas, comportamientos u objetos que no forman parte del estándar culturalmente asociado al sexo.".
parafilia doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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. The correct Spanish form is parafilia, spelled P-A-R-A-F-I-L-I-A.
Definition
- 1Atracción sexual por personas, comportamientos u objetos que no forman parte del estándar culturalmente asociado al sexo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parafilia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«Podemos repasar algunas parafilias para comprender la dimensión colosal de este paisaje. Los emetofílicos sienten placer sexual en el vómito. Los vampiristas, en el contacto con la sangre. La lascivia de los agorafílicos –que no son necesariamente exhibicionistas– se desata con la actividad sexual en lugares públicos».
«“Es bien importante entender que toda sexualidad, incluyendo la masturbación, son elementos privados. Nada de hacerlo en la calle, y es un delito porque la ley lo establece como exposición deshonesta. Es una parafilia”, insistió el educador».
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.