preternatural

/[pɾet̪eɾnat̪uˈɾal]/ adj

Letters

13 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

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preternatural is anSpanishadj. It means: Que se halla fuera del ser y estado natural de una cosa. Pronounced [pɾet̪eɾnat̪uˈɾal].

Key facts for preternatural
PropertyValue
Headwordpreternatural
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdj
IPA[pɾet̪eɾnat̪uˈɾal]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

preternatural is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for preternatural is 13 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɾet̪eɾnat̪uˈɾal]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Que se halla fuera del ser y estado natural de una cosa.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for preternatural 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 preternatural, spelled P-R-E-T-E-R-N-A-T-U-R-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Que se halla fuera del ser y estado natural de una cosa.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "preternatural"?
"preternatural" is spelled P-R-E-T-E-R-N-A-T-U-R-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is [pɾet̪eɾnat̪uˈɾal].
What does "preternatural" mean?
As an adj, "preternatural" means: Que se halla fuera del ser y estado natural de una cosa.
How do you pronounce "preternatural"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "preternatural" is [pɾet̪eɾnat̪uˈɾal]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "preternatural" 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.