paroxítono
[paɾokˈsit̪ono]
The verdict
“paroxítono” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Referido a una palabra, que la acentuación recae en su penúltima sílaba. En español, las palabras paroxítonas llevan tilde (acento ortográfico) cuando terminan en consonante diferente de "n" o "s".
Corpus desk
Index ES-paroxitono · paroxítono · Spanish
paroxítono · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | paroxítono |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [paɾokˈsit̪ono] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “paroxítono” en español
Rare enough to double-check
paroxítono is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [paɾokˈsit̪ono]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
paroxítono has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 paroxítono, spelled P-A-R-O-X-Í-T-O-N-O.
Definition
- 1Referido a una palabra, que la acentuación recae en su penúltima sílaba. En español, las palabras paroxítonas llevan tilde (acento ortográfico) cuando terminan en consonante diferente de "n" o "s".
- 2Se dice de un verso que termina en una palabra con acento prosódico en la penúltima sílaba.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how paroxítono appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
ár-bol, in-for-me o con-tra-pun-te-o son palabras paroxítonas.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.