salterio

/[sal̪ˈt̪eɾjo]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#74,917

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

salterio is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento de cuerda que consiste en una caja de resonancia sobre la que se extienden las cuerdas, que son pulsadas con púas o los dedos o bien percutidas con palos, macillos, etc. El percutor pue... Pronounced [sal̪ˈt̪eɾjo].

Key facts for salterio
PropertyValue
Headwordsalterio
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[sal̪ˈt̪eɾjo]
Letters8
Frequency rank#74,917
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for salterio is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sal̪ˈt̪eɾjo]. Corpus data places it at rank #74,917 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Instrumento de cuerda que consiste en una caja de resonancia sobre la que se extienden las cuerdas, que son pulsadas con púas o los dedos o bien percutidas con palos, macillos, etc. El percutor puede ser una varilla metálica o de madera que golpea una cuerda creando melodías (como en el caso de la celesta, cítara, santur persa) o bien un grupo de cuerdas creando un acompañamiento rítmico.
  2. 2
    Compendio o colección de salmos, composiciones líricas musicales sagradas, que puede hacer referencia a distintas colecciones de himnos musicales de ese género.

Frequency rank: #74,917 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "salterio"?
"salterio" is spelled S-A-L-T-E-R-I-O. The IPA pronunciation is [sal̪ˈt̪eɾjo].
What does "salterio" mean?
As a noun, "salterio" means: Instrumento de cuerda que consiste en una caja de resonancia sobre la que se extienden las cuerdas, que son pulsadas con púas o los dedos o bien percutidas con palos, macillos, etc. El percutor pue...
How do you pronounce "salterio"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "salterio" is [sal̪ˈt̪eɾjo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.