salvaguardia
[salβ̞aˈɣ̞waɾð̞ja]
The verdict
“salvaguardia” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #58,836 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #58,836
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Especie de guardia municipal o dependiente de la policía.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salvaguardia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [salβ̞aˈɣ̞waɾð̞ja] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #58,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “salvaguardia” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for salvaguardia is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [salβ̞aˈɣ̞waɾð̞ja]. Corpus data places it at rank #58,836 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Especie de guardia municipal o dependiente de la policía.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for salvaguardia in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is salvaguardia, spelled S-A-L-V-A-G-U-A-R-D-I-A.
Definition
- 1Especie de guardia municipal o dependiente de la policía.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “salvaguardia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-A-L-V-A-G-U-A-R-D-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [salβ̞aˈɣ̞waɾð̞ja] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.