rastafari
The verdict
“rastafari” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #66,449 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #66,449
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Relativo a un movimiento espiritual de origen jamaicano influenciado por corrientes de pensamiento locales, de tipo filosófico y espirituales, tales como el panafricanismo, el afroamericano, el hin...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rastafari |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [rast̪aˈfaɾi] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rastafari” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for rastafari is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [rast̪aˈfaɾi]. Corpus data places it at rank #66,449 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Relativo a un movimiento espiritual de origen jamaicano influenciado por corrientes de pensamiento locales, de tipo filosófico y espirituales, tales como el panafricanismo, el afroamericano, el hin...".
No misspelling variants are generated for rastafari 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 rastafari, spelled R-A-S-T-A-F-A-R-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Relativo a un movimiento espiritual de origen jamaicano influenciado por corrientes de pensamiento locales, de tipo filosófico y espirituales, tales como el panafricanismo, el afroamericano, el hinduismo, la tradición judeocristiana, y tradiciones de raíz africana como la Kumina procedente del Congo, entre otras, con un claro enfoque afrocéntrico y una fuerte concepción de diáspora.
Frequency rank: #66,449 in Spanish
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-A-S-T-A-F-A-R-I — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [rast̪aˈfaɾi] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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