qué barbaridad
The verdict
“qué barbaridad” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Expresión de asombro, decepción, indignación o sorpresa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | qué barbaridad |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈke β̞aɾβ̞aɾiˈð̞að̞] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “qué barbaridad” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for qué barbaridad is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈke β̞aɾβ̞aɾiˈð̞að̞]. 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: "Expresión de asombro, decepción, indignación o sorpresa.".
No misspelling variants are generated for qué barbaridad 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 qué barbaridad, spelled Q-U-É- -B-A-R-B-A-R-I-D-A-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Expresión de asombro, decepción, indignación o sorpresa.
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Using “qué barbaridad”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is Q-U-É- -B-A-R-B-A-R-I-D-A-D — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈke β̞aɾβ̞aɾiˈð̞að̞] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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