quintaesencia
Letters
13 characters
Frequency Rank
#67,222
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
quintaesencia is aSpanishnoun. It means: En la cosmología aristotélica, la sustancia que forma los astros y, en general, las esferas supralunares de los cielos, por oposición a los cuatro elementos de Empédocles que participarían de los c... Pronounced [kĩn̪t̪aeˈsẽnsja].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quintaesencia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kĩn̪t̪aeˈsẽnsja] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #67,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for quintaesencia is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kĩn̪t̪aeˈsẽnsja]. Corpus data places it at rank #67,222 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 quintaesencia 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 quintaesencia, spelled Q-U-I-N-T-A-E-S-E-N-C-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En la cosmología aristotélica, la sustancia que forma los astros y, en general, las esferas supralunares de los cielos, por oposición a los cuatro elementos de Empédocles que participarían de los cuerpos sublunares.
- 2Entre los alquimistas, principio fundamental de la composición de los cuerpos, por cuyo medio esperaban operar la transmutación de los metales.
- 3Lo más puro, más fino y acendrado de una cosa.
- 4Forma hipotética de energía que se postula para explicar las observaciones del universo en expansión acelerada.
Frequency rank: #67,222 in Spanish
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