subterfugio

/[suβ̞t̪eɾˈfuxjo]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#77,710

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

subterfugio is aSpanishnoun. It means: Excusa bien elaborada y artificiosa. Pronounced [suβ̞t̪eɾˈfuxjo].

Key facts for subterfugio
PropertyValue
Headwordsubterfugio
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[suβ̞t̪eɾˈfuxjo]
Letters11
Frequency rank#77,710
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for subterfugio is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [suβ̞t̪eɾˈfuxjo]. Corpus data places it at rank #77,710 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Excusa bien elaborada y artificiosa.".

No misspelling variants are generated for subterfugio 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 subterfugio, spelled S-U-B-T-E-R-F-U-G-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Excusa bien elaborada y artificiosa.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #77,710 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "subterfugio"?
"subterfugio" is spelled S-U-B-T-E-R-F-U-G-I-O. The IPA pronunciation is [suβ̞t̪eɾˈfuxjo].
What does "subterfugio" mean?
As a noun, "subterfugio" means: Excusa bien elaborada y artificiosa.
How do you pronounce "subterfugio"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "subterfugio" is [suβ̞t̪eɾˈfuxjo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.