sátrapa

/[ˈsat̪ɾapa]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#67,322

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

sátrapa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Gobernador provincial en la Antigua Persia. Pronounced [ˈsat̪ɾapa].

Key facts for sátrapa
PropertyValue
Headwordsátrapa
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈsat̪ɾapa]
Letters7
Frequency rank#67,322
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for sátrapa is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsat̪ɾapa]. Corpus data places it at rank #67,322 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 misspelling variants are generated for sátrapa 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 sátrapa, spelled S-Á-T-R-A-P-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gobernador provincial en la Antigua Persia.
  2. 2
    Gobernador que se cree superior a su pueblo y gobierna a su libre arbitrio, abusando de sus privilegios y cobrando una cantidad excesiva de impuestos para beneficio propio.

Frequency rank: #67,322 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sátrapa"?
"sátrapa" is spelled S-Á-T-R-A-P-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈsat̪ɾapa].
What does "sátrapa" mean?
As a noun, "sátrapa" means: Gobernador provincial en la Antigua Persia.
How do you pronounce "sátrapa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sátrapa" is [ˈsat̪ɾapa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sátrapa" come from?
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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.