subespecie

/[suβ̞esˈpesje]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#62,671

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

subespecie is aSpanishnoun. It means: Categoría infraespecífica, cada uno de los grupos en que se dividen las especies, y que se componen de individuos que, además de los caracteres propios de la misma, tienen en común otros caracteres... Pronounced [suβ̞esˈpesje].

Key facts for subespecie
PropertyValue
Headwordsubespecie
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[suβ̞esˈpesje]
Letters10
Frequency rank#62,671
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for subespecie is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [suβ̞esˈpesje]. Corpus data places it at rank #62,671 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 subespecie 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 subespecie, spelled S-U-B-E-S-P-E-C-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Categoría infraespecífica, cada uno de los grupos en que se dividen las especies, y que se componen de individuos que, además de los caracteres propios de la misma, tienen en común otros caracteres morfológicos por los cuales se asemejan entre sí y se distinguen de los de las demás subespecies. Desde el punto de vista estrictamente sistemático o de la taxonomía, es la categoría taxonómica comprendida entre la especie y la raza.
  2. 2
    Categoría de reemplazo a la obsoleta variedad o varietas

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #62,671 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "subespecie"?
"subespecie" is spelled S-U-B-E-S-P-E-C-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is [suβ̞esˈpesje].
What does "subespecie" mean?
As a noun, "subespecie" means: Categoría infraespecífica, cada uno de los grupos en que se dividen las especies, y que se componen de individuos que, además de los caracteres propios de la misma, tienen en común otros caracteres...
How do you pronounce "subespecie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "subespecie" is [suβ̞esˈpesje]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "subespecie" 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.