parénesis
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9 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
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parénesis is aSpanishnoun. It means: Fase de un discurso o sermón en que se exhorta a seguir una conducta correcta e irreprochable desde un punto de vista moral, ético o simplemente religioso. Pronounced [paˈɾenesis].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parénesis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [paˈɾenesis] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for parénesis is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paˈɾenesis]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for parénesis 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 parénesis, spelled P-A-R-É-N-E-S-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fase de un discurso o sermón en que se exhorta a seguir una conducta correcta e irreprochable desde un punto de vista moral, ético o simplemente religioso.
- 2Tipo de sermón, el sermón parenético, que se dirige sobre todo a la voluntad, al corazón y a la disposición interior del ánimo humano para exhortar, estimular y amonestar.
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