sefardí
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#71,427
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
sefardí is anSpanishadj. It means: Judío de la península ibérica (expulsado de España por los reyes católicos en 1492). Pronounced [sefaɾˈð̞i].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sefardí |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [sefaɾˈð̞i] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sefardí is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sefaɾˈð̞i]. Corpus data places it at rank #71,427 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 sefardí 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 sefardí, spelled S-E-F-A-R-D-Í, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Judío de la península ibérica (expulsado de España por los reyes católicos en 1492).
- 2Todos aquellos judíos de origen distinto al askenazí (judíos de origen alemán, ruso o centroeuropeo) entonces de origen árabe, de Persia, Armenia, Georgia, Yemen e incluso India, que no guardan ningún vínculo con la cultura hispánica que distingue a los sefardíes.
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Frequency rank: #71,427 in Spanish
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