parsimonia

/[paɾsiˈmonja]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#81,292

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

parsimonia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Moderación en el gasto y en los placeres. Pronounced [paɾsiˈmonja].

Key facts for parsimonia
PropertyValue
Headwordparsimonia
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[paɾsiˈmonja]
Letters10
Frequency rank#81,292
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of parsimonia in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for parsimonia is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paɾsiˈmonja]. Corpus data places it at rank #81,292 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for parsimonia 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 parsimonia, spelled P-A-R-S-I-M-O-N-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Moderación en el gasto y en los placeres.
  2. 2
    Calma y lentitud excesivas en el habla y en las acciones.
  3. 3
    Por extensión, preferencia por la explicación más simple entre varias alternativas, usada como principio heurístico en la ciencia moderna.
  4. 4
    Circunspección, templanza.

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Frequency rank: #81,292 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "parsimonia"?
"parsimonia" is spelled P-A-R-S-I-M-O-N-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [paɾsiˈmonja].
What does "parsimonia" mean?
As a noun, "parsimonia" means: Moderación en el gasto y en los placeres.
How do you pronounce "parsimonia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "parsimonia" is [paɾsiˈmonja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "parsimonia" 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.