slow motion

/[esˈlow ˈmoʃõn]/ phrase

Letters

11 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

slow motion is aSpanishphrase. It means: Efecto de lentitud de movimiento que se obtiene al proyectar o rodar una película a mayor velocidad de la normal. Pronounced [esˈlow ˈmoʃõn].

Key facts for slow motion
PropertyValue
Headwordslow motion
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[esˈlow ˈmoʃõn]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

slow motion is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for slow motion is 11 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈlow ˈmoʃõn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Efecto de lentitud de movimiento que se obtiene al proyectar o rodar una película a mayor velocidad de la normal.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for slow motion 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 slow motion, spelled S-L-O-W- -M-O-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Efecto de lentitud de movimiento que se obtiene al proyectar o rodar una película a mayor velocidad de la normal.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "slow motion"?
"slow motion" is spelled S-L-O-W- -M-O-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is [esˈlow ˈmoʃõn].
What does "slow motion" mean?
As a phrase, "slow motion" means: Efecto de lentitud de movimiento que se obtiene al proyectar o rodar una película a mayor velocidad de la normal.
How do you pronounce "slow motion"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "slow motion" is [esˈlow ˈmoʃõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "slow motion" come from?
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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.