sortija

/[soɾˈt̪ixa]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#65,733

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

sortija is aSpanishnoun. It means: Aro pequeño que se ajusta a los dedos, especialmente el que tiene alguna piedra preciosa u otro adorno. Pronounced [soɾˈt̪ixa].

Key facts for sortija
PropertyValue
Headwordsortija
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[soɾˈt̪ixa]
Letters7
Frequency rank#65,733
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for sortija is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [soɾˈt̪ixa]. Corpus data places it at rank #65,733 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Aro pequeño que se ajusta a los dedos, especialmente el que tiene alguna piedra preciosa u otro adorno.
  2. 2
    Anilla.
  3. 3
    Rizo del cabello, en figura de anillo.
  4. 4
    Cada uno de los aros que en los carros refuerzan los cubos de las ruedas.
  5. 5
    Juego de correr sortija.
  6. 6
    Juego de muchachos en donde el objetivo es adivinar a quién se le ha dado una sortija, la cual la lleva escondida entre las manos uno de los jugadores, quien hace ademán de dejarla a cada uno de los que juegan.
  7. 7
    En una calesita, anillo que los niños deben intentar quitar de las manos a cierta persona que está afuera, y quien logra arrebatarlo consigue una vuelta extra.

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Frequency rank: #65,733 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sortija"?
"sortija" is spelled S-O-R-T-I-J-A. The IPA pronunciation is [soɾˈt̪ixa].
What does "sortija" mean?
As a noun, "sortija" means: Aro pequeño que se ajusta a los dedos, especialmente el que tiene alguna piedra preciosa u otro adorno.
How do you pronounce "sortija"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sortija" is [soɾˈt̪ixa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sortija" 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.