tragedia
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,207
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
tragedia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tipo de drama (obra de teatro) en que el personaje principal sufre las consecuencias funestas de un sino o destino adverso, o se debe enfrentar a una decisión fatal de los dioses. Se practicaba en ... Pronounced [t̪ɾaˈxeð̞ja]. It ranks #4,207 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with travesía and tragedias.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tragedia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪ɾaˈxeð̞ja] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tragedia is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪ɾaˈxeð̞ja]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,207 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for tragedia, with forms such as "rtagedia", "targedia", and "traegdia". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "travesía", "tragedias", "traería", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 tragedia, spelled T-R-A-G-E-D-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tipo de drama (obra de teatro) en que el personaje principal sufre las consecuencias funestas de un sino o destino adverso, o se debe enfrentar a una decisión fatal de los dioses. Se practicaba en la antigua Grecia con ayuda de un coro y desarrollaba temas de la antigua épica con propósito de catarsis (purificación del ánimo a través de la expresión de sentimientos intensos), especialmente de dolor u horror y compasión.
- 2Género o estilo de este tipo de obras₁.
- 3Suceso o situación que produce gran sufrimiento, siendo generalmente de consecuencias irreparables.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtagedia,targedia,traegdia,tragdeia,tragedai,trageddia,trageida,traggedia,trgaedia,trragedia,ttragedia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tragedia
Misspelling Variants of "tragedia"
Frequency rank: #4,207 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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